Daniel Rhyne, a former core infrastructure engineer, was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison for sabotaging his employer’s systems and attempting to extort 20 bitcoin from the company. The attack used scheduled tasks on a domain controller to disable accounts, change passwords across thousands of servers and workstations, and demand payment under threat of further disruption. #DanielRhyne #FBI #SomersetCounty
Keypoints
- Daniel Rhyne was sentenced for attacking his own employer’s network.
- He pleaded guilty to extortion and intentional damage to a protected computer.
- He used scheduled tasks to delete and lock out administrator and user accounts.
- The attack changed passwords across hundreds of servers and thousands of workstations.
- Rhyne demanded 20 bitcoin and threatened further shutdowns if not paid.