A former software developer was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison for going to extraordinary lengths to sabotage his company’s computer systems after his responsibilities were reduced, according to court documents.
The man, David Lu, 55, of Houston, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for his role in creating destructive computer code that he deployed on Eaton Corporation, a power management company where he worked as a software developer from 2007 to 2019.
In March, a jury convicted Mr. Lu, a Chinese citizen, of intentionally damaging Eaton’s protected computers through a series of cyberattacks in 2019.
Peter Zeidenberg, a lawyer for Mr. Lu, said on Friday that his client was disappointed in the jury’s verdict and that he maintained his innocence. He is “weighing his appeal options,” Mr. Zeidenberg said.
Eaton, which is based in Beachwood, Ohio, and which develops power products for the aerospace, vehicle and electrical industries, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
Mr. Lu used his access to Eaton’s computer systems and technical knowledge to wreak havoc on its networks, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for the company, Matthew R. Galeotti, the acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s criminal division, said in a news release.
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