Former U.S. Army Contractor Sentenced to Prison for Destroying IT System

Barrence Anthony, a former federal contractor who worked on a U.S. Army IT system, was sentenced to two years in prison for illegally accessing his employer’s network, stealing servers and proprietary information, and causing damage that resulted in more than $1 million in losses. He was also ordered to pay restitution worth nearly $50,000.

Anthony worked for Federated IT, which provides IT services to government agencies such as the Office of the Army’s Chaplain Corps, in this case managing a SharePoint instance hosted on Amazon Web Services. He allegedly accessed the system after his employment was terminated in December 2016, transferred backups to his own account, and wiped the entire system. Additionally, he launched brute force cyberattacks against the system, making it inaccessible for more than two weeks.