Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer’s network

Summary by Cyber Security News7 Oct 2026, 01:59 CET

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Sergiu Gatlan has an update on a case previously noted on this site. A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer’s network in a ransomware-style attack. 57-year-old Daniel Rhyne from Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty...

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