Famous Hungarian singer’s son sent to prison in the USA after Secret Service investigation
It spreads like a wildfire in the Hungarian media that the son of János Bródy, one of the most famous Hungarian singers, has been sentenced to prison in the United States. The 38-year-old Dániel Miklós Bródy has to pay almost USD 530,000 as compensation.
According to index.hu, the reason for the harsh sentence was that Mr Bródy intentionally damaged the computer network and stole the valuable computer code of his former employee. His motive was retaliation. Furthermore, he made false statements to a government agency. The son of the Kossuth and Liszt Ferenc-award winner Hungarian musician legend, lives in San Francisco and worked for the First Republic Bank. The institution closed this May because the JPMorgan Chase bought it.
Based on a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office, Mr Bródy worked there as a cloud engineer, but was fired in March 2020, shortly before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The reason for his dismissal was that he violated company policy. He pleaded guilty in April 2023 to two charges.
Prison and money
According to the statement of the United States Attorney’s Office, “he used his company-issued laptop — which he failed to return upon being fired — to access the bank’s computer network without authorisation and to cause substantial damage. Among other things, Bródy deleted the bank’s code repositories, ran a malicious script to delete logs, left taunts within the bank’s code for former colleagues, and impersonated other bank employees by opening sessions in their names. He also emailed himself a proprietary bank code that he had worked on as an employee, which was valued at over $5,000. At the sentencing hearing, Judge Orrick determined the total cost of the damage to the bank’s systems to be at least $220,621.22”, the statement goes.
Therefore, Judge Orrick “ordered him to pay restitution totalling $529,266.37 and to serve three years of supervised release to begin after his prison term is completed.” Interestingly, the US Secret Service conducted the investigation.
Dániel Miklós Bródy has been living in the United States since 2014.
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I have to respect Brody Janos for writing “Birkaorszag” which Hungarians should listen to every morning before starting their day in Fideszland. There are so many cases of the offspring of famous people getting themselves into trouble. They usually live in such a privileged world that it often leads to self-centered recklessness. Brody Daniel committed serious crimes. The idiot is now getting a sentence he deserves. I feel sorry for the father seeing his son get to this point.
The Secret Service has 2 main jobs: ensuring the integrity of American currency and providing protection for the President of the USA. Interfering in this banks infrastructure must have fallen under the currency part.
Someone who had many opportunities but when hitting a hurdle, over reacted and has now ruined his own life, and not helped his family much…..
Suggests symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder e.g. unethical, dishonest, impulsive, immature, thieving and selfish behaviour that has become too common? Metaphor?