The company was founded in 1962 by
Betty Hollander at her kitchen table while she was raising four children. Omega began as a
thermocouple manufacturer but slowly transitioned to other types of instrumentation. , Omega manufactures and sells devices that measure everything from temperature to
pH. In 2016, as the company moved their headquarters to
Norwalk, Connecticut, President Joe Vorih publicly stated that Omega would be "moving from being a traditional industrial sensor company to a
wireless technology company."
Hacking In 1996, Tim Lloyd, an 11-year employee of Omega and a
network administrator within the company, was fired. Three weeks after he was fired, he unleashed a
software time bomb within Omega's computer systems, deleting the software that ran all of the company's manufacturing operations at its factory in
Bridgeport, New Jersey. Law enforcement was contacted by Omega executives during the second week of the incident and the
U.S. Secret Service found suspicious activity early on, including deliberate
data erasure and reformatting of critical files. The company spent nearly $2 million repairing the programs and lost nearly $10 million (equivalent to $ million in ) in revenue, resulting in 80 employee layoffs, though Lloyd's lawyer stated that Omega's losses were far smaller. Lloyd was convicted of
computer sabotage and sentenced to 41 months in
Federal prison. The Lloyd
hacking case is considered one of the largest employee sabotage cases in United States business history. The case also aired in a
Forensic Files episode "Hack Attack", episode 39 of
season 8. ==Sale to Spectris==