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Monday, September 06, 2021

Woman ‘rampaged’ employer’s computer system after getting fired

TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida woman deleted thousands of company records and wrote profanities in her employer’s computer system after she was fired from her position as head of human resources. 

Medghyne Calonge was found guilty of one count of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer, one count of accessing a protected computer and recklessly causing damage, prosecutors said. 

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The same thing happened out at the Safeway Warehouse where I worked. She deleted the entire computer system and idled thousands of workers with the press of a key
With the system down, we couldn't pick orders, we couldn't receive freight and the stores couldn't order. We'd come in and sit around for 12 hours waiting for the system to be restored, and that went on for the better part of a week.
When it did come back up, we stayed on 12-14 hour days for another week playing catch-up.