Juliana Barile, the former employee of a New York credit union, pleaded guilty to accessing the financial institution’s computer systems without authorization and destroying over 21 gigabytes of data in revenge after being fired.
According to court documents, the defendant worked remotely as a part-time employee for the credit union until May 19, 2021, when she was fired.
Even though a credit union employee asked the bank’s information technology support firm to disable Barile’s remote access credentials, that access was not removed. Two days later, on May 21, Barile logged on for roughly 40 minutes.
The defendant deleted over 20,000 files and around 3,500 directories during that time, totaling roughly 21.3 gigabytes of data stored on the bank’s share drive.
