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Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 112 points 4 months ago* (8 children)

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...

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I briefly worked with a government client that would bring in prison laborers to collect trash. From the IT building of the tax agency.

But don't worry, they were just white collar criminals. You know, people who only went to jail for stealing... financial data... The very thing that was accessible in that building.

Genius.

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan -2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I don't think that you'd be able to do much with that information as a prisoner.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 points 3 months ago

You would be surprised, I'm sure there are a lot of foreign agents in US Prisons. Great place to train insurgents and radicals.

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[–] VOwOxel@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Oh I'm sure the government loved taking them, since >Half of all Politicians are corrupt fraudsters.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 point 3 months ago

OPEXUS is not the government, it's a contractor hosting government databases.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago

wire fraud

Relatives of El Nasir?

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

Company only paid for a 7 year background check, so you mis them getting out of prison 8 years ago.

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