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Quote:What happened: Thomas Millot worked as a systems analyst at Aventis Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for computer security at the company's Kansas City, Mo., office. As part of his job, Millot administered the SecureID card system.

After Aventis outsourced its computer security operations to IBM in late 2000, Millot found himself out of a job.

But he kept an administrator-level SecureID card with him and used it to enter the network nine times. During one of those intrusions, Millot deleted the account for his former colleague Jeff Jernigan, Aventis' manager of technical services.

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What a maroon. 

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What a maroon. 
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A computer security pro should have known the deletion could be traced.  :

[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=2192.msg7722#msg7722 date=1137347688]
What a maroon. 
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My thoughts exactly.