TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Tampa female faces 15 several years in prison for harming her employer’s laptop system just after she was fired from her business in 2019.

Medghyne Calonge, 41, was hired in January 2019 as the Head of Human Sources at the St. Petersburg place of work of an on the internet supplier of professional expert services primarily based in New York. She was fired from the firm in June 2019 for failing to meet up with the bare minimum requirements of her task following, among other factors, she improperly downgraded a colleague’s access to a computer method pursuing an argument with the colleague, in accordance to the indictment and the evidence at her trial.

Just before currently being escorted out of the making, Calonge was observed by two workers “repeatedly” hitting the delete vital on her desktop personal computer. Hrs afterwards, investigators mentioned she logged again into the company’s computer method and started deleting job programs and resumes. She also still left messages with profanities for the firm to obtain. Additional than 17,000 career purposes and resumes ended up deleted as a outcome of her conduct, authorities claimed.

“During the up coming two times, Calonge rampaged by way of Method-1, deleting more than 17,000 task apps and resumes, and leaving messages with profanities inside the system,” the push release states. “Ultimately, Calonge totally destroyed all of Employer-1’s details in Program-1.”

Authorities claimed the business invested about $100,000 to investigate the subject and rebuild its laptop or computer procedure, but was unable to get better all the knowledge.

On Aug. 16, Calonge was observed guilty on 1 count of intentionally leading to damage to a protected computer system and one particular depend of accessing a secured computer and recklessly creating destruction.

“As a unanimous jury discovered right now, Medghyne Calonge deliberately and maliciously caused critical harm to the computers of her previous employer,” U.S. Legal professional Audrey Strauss claimed in a assertion on Aug. 16. “Her steps wiped out data vitally crucial to the employer company, and price tag the enterprise funds and time to fix. Now Calonge awaits sentencing for her crimes.”

Calonge faces 15 many years in jail. The rely of intentionally damaging personal computers carries a highest prison time period of 10 several years, and the rely of recklessly damaging computers carries a utmost jail time period of 5 yrs.