Call the Fashion Police: Disgruntled Gucci Ex-Employee Shuts Down Servers; Loss of $200,000 in Productivity Costs
April 4, 2011 – 1:21 am
The world of luxury and fashion is, in many ways, alien to us regular human beings. Beyond watching repeats of Project Runway, most of us do not get exposed to the inner-working of the fashion industry. While the world of fashion is something that many of us view from afar, one thing recently happened that made the industry seem a bit, well, human.
A disgruntled, former IT worker for the U.S. division of Gucci sought revenge by shutting shut down servers and deleting data causing damage and lost productivity costs estimated at $200,000 in the process.
Here are some more details about this incident from The Register:
Gucci lost access to documents and email for nearly 24 hours, while other documents and emails were permanently lost. The attack relied on the use of a fictitious VPN access account allegedly established by Yin while still on Guccis payroll.
Tags: Fashion, Fashion Police
Recently we did a post about GE being targeted by hackers, which automatically made us ponder what Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwins fictional character on NBCs 30 Rock, would do to fix this issue. Well, we guess that since he is playing the Cable Town game these days, probably not much. Though another data breach made us think of another pop culture reference.