Tinli David (David Tinley)

Biography

2019: Infection with a virus spreadsheets of Siemens for the subsequent repair for money

In the middle of July, 2019 the former contractor of Siemens pled guilty of deliberate infection of documents of the company. It became clear that it started a virus in the spreadsheets of Siemens created by it, and then repaired them at additional expense. For these crimes the 62-year-old programmer David Tinli from the suburb of Pittsburgh is threatened up to 10 years of prison, by a penalty in the amount of $250,000 or both.

The hired programmer infected with a virus spreadsheets of Siemens and repaired them for money

According to court documents, Tinli provided the software for offices Siemens in Monrovilla, the State of Pennsylvania, within ten years. Among works which it was entrusted to it to execute there was a creation of spreadsheets, used by the company for order management on the equipment. Spreadsheets included the user scenarios which had to update file contents on the basis of the current orders which are stored in other, remote documents that allowed the company to automate inventory management and orders.

However the files created by Tinli began to glitch since 2014. Follows from materials of court that Tinli turned on in tables so-called "logical bombs" which had to be activated after a certain date and interfere with normal work of the file. Every time when scripts failed, the staff of Siemens addressed Tinli who corrected "error" for the mezzanine board.

The fraudulent scheme ran smoothly within two years till May, 2016. Once the trap worked when Tinli was not in the city, and the company had to cede administration control over spreadsheets to other employees that they could correct errors in scripts and execute the urgent order. IT specialists of Siemens found a virus, and in May, 2019 charge of fraud was brought to Tinli. A trial date of court is set for November 8, 2019.^[1]

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