A former core infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey industrial company, Daniel Rhyne, was sentenced to 32 months in prison for using administrator access to lock thousands of devices and launch a ransomware-style extortion scheme. He reset passwords, deleted domain admin accounts, sent a ransom note demanding 20 bitcoin, and threatened repeated shutdowns to pressure the company into paying. #DanielRhyne #TheFr0zenCrew

A former core infrastructure engineer, 57-year-old Daniel Rhyne, pleaded guilty to remotely accessing his employer’s network and locking Windows administrators out of 254 servers as part of an extortion attempt. He allegedly reset hundreds of account passwords to "TheFr0zenCrew!", deleted domain admin accounts, threatened daily server shutdowns unless paid 20 bitcoin, and investigators found evidence of a hidden VM and web searches used to plan the attack. #DanielRhyne #WindowsDomainController