Twin brothers, fired, wipe 96 US Gov databases

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/Open link View original on lemmy.world

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thenextguy

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No backups?

Nurse_Robot reply

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Muneeb didn’t appear to consider his actions a big deal. “Eh, they can recover from yesterday,” he said, referring to daily database backups.

“Yeah, they could,” Sohaib agreed.

finallymadeanaccount

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Having served time for wire fraud/computer crimes, why didn't their names come up as 'do not hire' during background checks for the computer-oriented companies they got work at?

Arrandee

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WHERE do I find that gigantic USB delete key?

This event happened at OPEXUS in February 2025, which is interesting because I immediately assumed the criminal sloppers were employed by the Trump admin.

paraphrand

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I’ve never heard of the term “password trafficking” before.