The state or country I am talking about is: Georgia
I received a letter today (I am currently out of work on Worker's Comp due to an on the job injury last month) from my employer. In it it states I am being terminated immediately based on the following information:
On or about February 23, and for several subsequent days, the computer system of [company name withheld] was broken into. The IP address of the hacker was traced and discovered to be that of [me]. Files were seized from the [company name] system. These files were not in any way related to any projects for which [me] was employed. Additionally, company e-mail accounts belonging to [company name] employees were broken into, again from [me] IP address.
Given that the activity described in the above paragraph is considered to be malicious, as well as a violation of federal statutes, the decision has been made to terminate [me] employment at [company name] immediately.
Okay, folks, I have no where near the computer expertise to do any of this. I'm doing good to check my company email from home, much less access the server or anything. I don't have a clue as to how my IP address could be linked to any of this.
Nor do I have any idea what 'files' were supposedly seized. My harddrive had crashed at work about the time that this supposedly happened so I didn't even have access to my computer at work for a week.
This just blows my mind. Anyone have any ideas on whether this is possible? or whether I may have been set up? There is a girl that works there that knows computers inside and out...she is also engaged to the computer guy who set our server and whole system up. She has made no secret about wanting my job and has even bragged about being able to pull files off the server at home to work on them and then uploading the stuff back to the server the next day.
But all of that still doesn't explain how my IP address got involved. I'm assuming they are talking about my home IP address.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Amie
I received a letter today (I am currently out of work on Worker's Comp due to an on the job injury last month) from my employer. In it it states I am being terminated immediately based on the following information:
On or about February 23, and for several subsequent days, the computer system of [company name withheld] was broken into. The IP address of the hacker was traced and discovered to be that of [me]. Files were seized from the [company name] system. These files were not in any way related to any projects for which [me] was employed. Additionally, company e-mail accounts belonging to [company name] employees were broken into, again from [me] IP address.
Given that the activity described in the above paragraph is considered to be malicious, as well as a violation of federal statutes, the decision has been made to terminate [me] employment at [company name] immediately.
Okay, folks, I have no where near the computer expertise to do any of this. I'm doing good to check my company email from home, much less access the server or anything. I don't have a clue as to how my IP address could be linked to any of this.
Nor do I have any idea what 'files' were supposedly seized. My harddrive had crashed at work about the time that this supposedly happened so I didn't even have access to my computer at work for a week.
This just blows my mind. Anyone have any ideas on whether this is possible? or whether I may have been set up? There is a girl that works there that knows computers inside and out...she is also engaged to the computer guy who set our server and whole system up. She has made no secret about wanting my job and has even bragged about being able to pull files off the server at home to work on them and then uploading the stuff back to the server the next day.
But all of that still doesn't explain how my IP address got involved. I'm assuming they are talking about my home IP address.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Amie