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21 Months Jail & $77000 fine for Sabotaging CITI Bank Network(Cyber Crime) in 2013

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21 Months Jail & $77,000 Fine  for Sabotaging CITI Bank Network in 2013 Ex staff of Citibank named  Lennon Ray Brown  was sentenced to Jail for 21 months  along with a $77,000 fine  by a Texas court ( U.S. District C. Godbey   ) for sabotaging the bank’s internal network, The Register reports. Lennon Ray Brown, who worked at the bank’s Irving office, said he wanted to get back at management for "firing" him after he was called out for poor job performance. Brown had been working at Citibank's Irving, Texas, corporate office since 2012, first as a contractor and later as a staff employee, when he was called in by a manager and reprimanded for poor performance. Brown, 38, admitted that on December 23, 2013, he issued commands to wipe the configuration files on 10 core routers within Citibank's internal network. Brown deliberately uploaded commands to the bank's Global Control Center routers that deleted the configuration files, ultimately conges...