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Industrial Distribution: Ex-Contractor Arrested in Hack of Grainger Inventory Servers

Dec. 18, 2017
Former IT contractor alleged to have hacked in "on several occasions."

Mike Hockett of Industrial Distribution has a story that’s a must-read for all interested in distribution data security.

Ex-Grainger Contractor Arrested For Hacking Inventory Servers

“A statement U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois Thursday said that Edward Soybel, 34, illegally accessed Grainger's servers at its Lake Forest, IL headquarters on several occasions during July 2016, intentionally damaging Grainger's automated inventory management program. An indictment in Chicago federal court stated the program operates Grainger's on-site dispensing machines and has approximately 18,000 U.S. customers.”

This will be an interesting case to follow.