{"id":25565,"date":"2016-07-25T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T02:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=25565"},"modified":"2016-07-25T19:18:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T02:18:39","slug":"disgruntled-former-citibank-worker-who-shutdown-90-percent-of-banks-network-sentenced-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=25565","title":{"rendered":"Disgruntled Former Citibank Worker Who Shutdown 90 Percent of Bank&#8217;s Network Sentenced to Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15368 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Courtroom.jpg\" alt=\"Courtroom\" width=\"200\" height=\"181\" \/>A Dallas man who worked at Citibank Regents Campus in Irving, Texas was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for causing damage to a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The damage caused the shutting down of 90 percent of the bank&#8217;s network, according to the Department of Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey also ordered that <strong>Lennon Ray Brown<\/strong> to pay $77,200 in restitution, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0Brown, 38, who worked for Citibank first as a contract employee and then, beginning in February 2013 as a full-time employee, pleaded guilty in February 2016 to an indictment charging one count of intentional damage to a protected computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">At Monday&#8217;s sentencing hearing, where the court referred to Brown\u2019s conduct as \u201ccriminal vandalism,\u201d the government read a text that Brown sent to a coworker shortly after he shut down Citibank\u2019s system that read, \u201cThey was firing me. I just beat them to it. Nothing personal, the upper management need to see what they guys on the floor is capable of doing when they keep getting mistreated. \u00a0I took one for the team. Sorry if I made my peers look bad, but sometimes it take something like what I did to wake the upper management up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to documents, on December 23, 2013, after having a discussion with his supervisor earlier in the day about his work performance, Brown caused the transmission of the program<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0information, code and command, causing damage to the computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Specifically, at about 6:03 p.m. that evening, Brown transmitted a code and command to 10 core Citibank Global Control Center routers. 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