Fired credit union employee admits: I wiped 21GB of files from company's shared drive in retaliation

2021-09-01 23:34

On Tuesday, a woman from Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty to destroying computer data at an unidentified credit union from which she had recently been fired.

Juliana Barile, 35, according to charges filed by the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York [PDF], was working remotely at the credit union on a part-time basis when she was terminated on May 19, 2021.

An employee from the credit union is said to have asked the firm's IT department to disable Barile's system access but that didn't happen.

"During that time period, Barile deleted approximately 20,433 files and 3,478 directories, a total of approximately 21.3 gigabytes of data, from the 'P:' drive on that file server, which the Credit Union's employees referred to as the 'share' drive," the court filing says.

"The deleted data included files related to mortgage loan applications received by the Credit Union, as well as the contents of a folder labeled '! Cynet Ransom Protection(DON'T DELETE),' a folder containing information related to Cynet's anti-ransomware protection software."

Court documents indicate that the credit union had "Some" of the data backed up and that it has spent more than $10,000 undoing the damage.

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