A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/man-admits-to-extortion-plot-locking-coworkers-out-of-thousands-of-windows-devices/

Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot

A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey.

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@BleepingComputer Clearly this is the action that is just following the example the leaders of the country. If its wrong and illegal to do this, why are people in elected leadership positions in the USA allowed to do this behavior? I hate this fucking country.
@BleepingComputer it's just one subnet michael how much could it cost