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A fired Stradis Healthcare employee sought revenge by tampering with shipping data for desperately needed healthcare PPE. The FBI has announced that Christopher Dobbins pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in prison for breaching and temporarily disabling the Stradis Healthcare shipping system using a secret account, after being fired weeks earlier. Last March, as doctors reported having to ration and reuse personal protective equipment (PPE) to treat COVID-19 patients, Georgia-based Stradis Healthcare, which packages and ships PPE and surgical kits, was eager to step up and help, according to FBI Special Agent Roderick Coffin, who investigated the matter. ....
Disgruntled Former Employee Disrupted Shipments of Needed PPE During Pandemic When the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States last spring, a Georgia-based medical equipment packaging company worked to get personal protective equipment (PPE) to medical workers treating sick patients. But a disgruntled former employee thwarted those efforts at a time when protective equipment was desperately needed. Christopher Dobbins, a vice-president in the company who’d been fired a few weeks earlier, still had a secret account on the company’s computer system that he’d created before he was fired. Although the employer revoked his access, Dobbins used this secret account to get back into the company’s computer system from his home in late March. Once in the network, he changed or deleted critical data that the company needed to function, such as shipping information. It delayed the company’s ability to send out shipments of PPE. ....