[bawolff]

IANAL but I would assume computer fraud and abuse act:

(5)(a)knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;

[xkeysc0re]

In the cases cited under the CFAA (such as https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=124545279862007...) it seems the employee deleted data and private info. In this case, no data was deleted or other computing property damaged it just became unreachable.

[pwdisswordfish0]

The recent Van Buren decision would make that unlikely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27389500

[ironlion624]

That’s the one.