A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, now both 34, had been in trouble before. Back in 2015, the brothers pled guilty in Virginia to a scheme involving wire fraud and computers. Muneeb was sentenced to three years in prison, while Sohaib got two.
They had a track record and found employment in government IT
HR should’ve been fired for that fuckup.
A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
No. A case study against employing known criminals.
Both conclusions are correct, but step 1 was a background check
Don’t know how it works in US, but in most of EU you’re obligated to notify the employee about termination of work agreement like a month in adavnce. In case of IT revoking access that early would mean effectively month of paid leave.
Sounds nice.
Sounds nice.
That’s why it doesn’t happen
Commits hundreds of crimes then starts bringing up god. Class act.
Call me sexist but that guy has really girly handwriting
Just needs to dot his "i"s with hearts.
Back in 2015, the brothers pled guilty in Virginia to a scheme involving wire fraud and computers. Muneeb was sentenced to three years in prison, while Sohaib got two.
I’m not gonna say there were signs that these two weren’t the most law abiding of citizens to begin with, buuuuut…
And why couldn’t they have done that to the student loans system?
Like JFC, they could have instantly made themselves immune from trial-by-jury anywhere in America by doing that one tiny thing.
Wasn’t that a premise in Mr Robot?
Muneeb Akhter asked Sohaib Akhter for the plaintext password
The more scary part in this story is that the government stores your passwords in plain text!
So basically ANYONE with access to the database can steal your credentials, including employees, the government and any authorities.
Never re-use passwords.
To be fair, what else could they do with that keyboard.
“Eh, they can recover from yesterday,” he said, referring to daily database backups.
But did they recover from backups? Don’t leave the most juicy intrigue out of the story.
No one ever tested the backups so they don’t know if they will work!
Only a living wage can prevent data dumps.
Upper management can’t even see it…yet.
Redundant twin brothers to handle the redundant twin backups.
