Security News > 2021 > October > Fired IT admin revenge-hacks school by wiping data, changing passwords
A 29-year old wiped data on systems of a secondary school in the U.K. and changed the passwords at an IT company, in retaliatory cyber attacks for being fired.
At the beginning of the year on January 16, Adam Georgeson downloaded and deleted data from computers belonging to Welland Park Academy in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, and changed passwords of staff members.
Georgeson had been working as an IT technician at the school but had been fired at the time of the attack.
On January 21, while employed at an IT company in Rutland, Georgeson was arrested for his actions on the school's network.
Apart from changing passwords that locked users out, Georgeson also modified the phone system used to contact customers.
According to investigating officer Detective Constable Anthony Jones, Georgeson said that he accessed the school's system because he was bored and then started to wipe data.