Businesswoman's computer hacking revenge 'ruined' firm

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https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18524143.businesswomans-computer-hacking-revenge-ruined-firm/

By Megi Rychlikova
Court Reporter
yorkpress.co.uk
June 17, 2020

A WOMAN turned computer hacker to take revenge on a former business associate, 
a court heard.

Danielle Bulley, 58, spent five hours permanently deleting more than 5,000 
employee and supplier files and company manuals when she got into Letterbox 
Productions Ltd’s cloud-based Dropbox, said Alistair Campbell, prosecuting at 
York Crown Court, sitting in Leeds.

She told police she had been angry with its director, a former business 
associate.

Outside court, police said the victim had told them her actions had led to the 
company collapsing and job losses.

Inside court, Bulley, of Blind Lane, Tockwith, pleaded guilty to three charges 
of computer hacking.

She is now one of only a handful of people convicted under the Computer Misuse 
Act 1990.

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