Security News > 2022 > May > Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison
Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data.
Bing allegedly performed the act in June 2018, when he used his administrative privileges and "Root" account to access the company's financial system and delete all stored data from two database servers and two application servers.
According to documents released by the court of the People's Procuratorate of Haidian District, Beijing, H. Bing was one of the five main suspects in the data deletion incident.
"Han Bing claimed that his computer had private data and the password could only be provided to public authorities, or would only accept entering it himself and being present during the checks," detail Chinese outlets that reproduced portions of the published documents.
The final appraisal of the contracted forensic expert was that Bing had used the commands "Shred" and "Rm" commands to wipe the databases.
Surprisingly, Bing had repeatedly informed his employer and supervisors about security gaps in the financial system, even sending emails to other administrators to raise his concerns.