Posted on 01/24/2008 11:38:43 AM PST by Mount Athos
When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss's phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.
So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years' worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.
"She decided to mess up everything for everybody," Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson told reporters. "She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed."
It didn't take Steven Hutchins, owner of the architectural firm that bears his name, much time to figure out who'd done it — Cooley was the only other person who had full access to the files.
Police arrested Cooley Monday evening and charged her with causing greater than $1,000 damage to computer files, a felony. She was bailed out the following afternoon.
Hutchins told one TV station he'd managed to recover all the files using an expensive data-recovery service.
As for the job, Cooley originally wasn't in danger of losing it. The ad was for Hutchins' wife's company.
The firm told FOXNews.com that Cooley no longer is employed there.
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Company must have been using Mac computers. PC’s you can always get someone to recover your files.
These guys never heard of off-site backup? A disgruntled employee is one of the biggest sources of mass data loss.
That’s what happens hen one assumes....
As an IT professional, I’ve been preaching the gospel of backups for many years. And, it never ceases to amaze me that we still hear stories like this one. I’ll add this one to my testimonial file...
OOOPS!!!
Yes, and he used it too. It’s in the article.
ass - u - me. Some have yet to learn this simple lesson.
If all she did was hit delete, I’d guess most of it is recoverable.
Platform doesn't matter. There are utilities on both platforms for recovering "erased" data. But in this story, they used a data recovery firm to recover the files.
I bet the woman feels kind of foolish now. /sarc
Backup much? No file service for paper?
I believe data recovery is different that restoring data that has been backed up. Longer process and it’s gonna cost ya.
This isn’t going to look good on her next Performance Review!
She could do with a little visit from the Avon lady.
Wow, this is like those “want to get away” commercials.
Oops.
If they were simply deleted, I could get them back, even on a Mac.
He prolly went the expensive route, because he didn’t want to take any chance. Can’t blame him.
maybe she can blame it on TSS(Thick Skull Syndrome)
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