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Disgruntled Gucci Employee Who Crashed Company Email Sentenced to 2-6 Years in Prison
- New York Daily News, Monday, September 10, 2012 6:10 PM
Sam Yin, a computer engineer who was fired by Gucci under suspiscion of selling Gucci products for a profit after racking up $105,000 in employee discounted, was sentenced to 2-6 years in prison for taking revenge against the email systems of the luxury brand. Yin used an electronic profile he planted in the system a year earlier to erase files and crash the email servers, causing $200,000 in damage.
