Christopher V. Grupe, 46, of Minneapolis, was found guilty of willfully damaging a protected computer by jurors in federal court in October after a five-day trial. After returning from a 12-day suspension for insubordination in December 2015, Grupe was told he was going to be fired his job at the Alberta-based railway’s U.S. headquarters in Minneapolis, and retaliated by infiltrating the railway’s private network.
“Christopher Grupe chose to seek revenge on his employer by abusing company assets and insider knowledge that was entrusted to him to make the railroad safer, not more dangerous,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Rank said in a statement. “Today’s sentence is an appropriate consequence for the defendant’s deliberate and malicious actions.”
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