Ex-First Republic Engineer Gets Two Years’ Prison for Cloud Hack

A former First Republic Bank cloud engineer in San Francisco was sentenced to two years in prison for vandalizing the company’s computer network after he was fired in 2020.

Miklos Daniel Brody logged into the bank’s network without authorization, using his company-issued laptop, which he had failed to return, on the evening he was fired after the company accused him of having pornography on his computer, according to court records.

Later that day and into the next, “Brody deleted the bank’s code repositories, ran a malicious script to delete logs, left taunts within the bank’s code for former colleagues, and ...