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Software Developer Arrested in Computer Sabotage Case
Officials say Davis Lu placed malicious code on servers in a denial-of-service attack on his employer.
A software developer has been arrested and faces charges for allegedly placing malicious code on his employer s computer servers, the Justice Department reports.
A federal grand jury in Cleveland returned an indictment charging Davis Lu, 51, of Houston, Texas, with one count of damaging protected computers.
Officials say Lu was employed as a senior developer with an unnamed company based in Cleveland. In August 2019, the company was the victim of a denial of service (DoS) attack when production servers crashed and employees were unable to access the servers. The indictment says an investigation found unauthorized code installed on the server, which caused that server to create an infinite loop and crash.
Crash of production server leads to FBI case, despite modest losses
A US software developer faces computer sabotage charges after he was arrested over allegations that he planted malicious code on his former employer’s computer servers.
Davis Lu, 51, of Houston, Texas, has been indicted over one count of damaging protected computers following his arrest on Wednesday (April 14).
The case dates back to computer problems that the as-yet-unnamed Cleveland, Ohio-based start-up experienced on August 4, 2019, that witnessed the crash of production servers and staff locked out of systems.
A subsequent investigation uncovered “unauthorized code installed on a server, causing that server to create an infinite loop and crash”.