A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
To be fair, what else could they do with that keyboard.
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.
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.
Peter Thiel probably has a backup copy now from doge unfortunately.
Wasn’t that a premise in Mr Robot?
“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!
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…
Redundant twin brothers to handle the redundant twin backups.
