A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
Why were they storing passwords in plaintext in the databases?!
First time reading about government systems, eh?
Why not? National Safety Department of Slovak Republic (Narodny Bezpecnostny Urad) had password NBUSK123… just government things
No, that was a bit different.
login: nbusr
password: nbusr123my bad
The K in password doesnt match Republic in the name.
Totally secure.
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.
Student loans are loans from third party lenders which are cosigned by the federal government for collateral.
Even if every government record of it were destroyed, the loan servicers would have perfect multiple ledger copies of it all.
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.
