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Woman deletes $2.5M worth of files in mistaken revenge bid

Date: January 24th, 2008
Author: Paul Mah
Category: News

Workforce Management, Paul Mah

The employee of an architect firm, believing that she was about to
get fired, went on a silent rampage.
In just a few hours over a weekend, she deleted $2.5M worth of
computer files in a mistaken bid to
exact revenge.

The trigger appeared to be a help-wanted ad placed by her boss,
which described an open
administrative assistant position that sounded like her own job.
Excerpt from The Register:

Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, used her own account credentials to access
the server of Steven E.
Hutchins Architects and delete seven years' worth of drawings. The
firm's alarm company
said someone entered the premises at 11 p.m. on Sunday and was
there for about four
hours.

Fortunately though, firm owner Steven Hutchins was able to recover
the files. "It was not a
sensationalistic amount of money," he told The Register, referring
to the cost of the consultant he paid
to perform the recovery.

Cooley was released on bail after being charged with $1,000 worth
of damage to computers.
As it turned out, Cooley's job was never under threat. The
help-wanted position was actually a new
position to assist Hutchin's wife. It is unclear at this moment
what kind of action the firm will take
with Cooley.

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