A federal judge in Ohio sentenced a Chinese national to four years in prison on Aug. 21 for sabotaging his former employer’s network with malicious computer code, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Davis Lu, 55, a legal resident in Houston, was convicted by a Cleveland jury of causing intentional damage to protected computers in March. According to a sentencing memorandum filed by prosecutors in early August, the victim is the Ohio-based power management company Eaton Corp., where Lu worked as a computer programmer between 2007 and 2019.
“The defendant breached his employer’s trust by using his access and technical knowledge to sabotage company networks, wreaking havoc and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for a U.S. company,” Matthew Galeotti, acting assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s criminal division, said in a statement on Aug. 21 following Lu’s sentencing….