Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
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#2I have no problem with my credentials being revoked everywhere before I know about a layoff. I don't really care how I learn about it, just please don't make me come in to the office.
Re: Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
#3so, apparently, the passwords were stored in cleartext.
Re: Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
#4How on earth did someone previously convicted of what sounds like hacking get job access to so many prod government databases? Wild that it took them so long to get caught.
Re: Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
#5> On Feb. 1, 2025, Muneeb Akhter asked Sohaib Akhter for the plaintext password of an individual who submitted a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Public Portal, which was maintained by the Akhters’ employer. Sohaib Akhter conducted a database query on the EEOC database and then provided the password to Muneeb Akhter. That password was subsequently used to access that individual’s email account without authorization.
It should be a federal crime with prison time to make a DB for a federal agency and not hash and salt passwords or other auth credentials.
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#6> At 4:58 pm, he wiped out a Department of Homeland Security database using the command “DROP DATABASE dhsproddb.”
This article is hilarious. The two bickering brothers remind me of the guys in the Oceans movies played by Casey Affleck and Scott Caan. It’s amazing they got this close to sensitive data.
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#7I have no problem with my credentials being revoked everywhere before I know about a layoff. I don't really care how I learn about it, just please don't make me come in to the office.
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Re: Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
#8> At 4:58 pm, he wiped out a Department of Homeland Security database using the command “DROP DATABASE dhsproddb.” This article is hilarious. The two bickering brothers remind me of the guys in the Oceans movies played by Casey Affleck and Scott Caan. It’s amazing they got this close to sensitive data.
Those two in the movies were always a highlight for me, especially when the one joins the other in the Mexican factory riot.
Re: Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
#9so, apparently, the passwords were stored in cleartext.
Remind me of a forum a long time ago that sent me my password in clear when I used the "forgot password" link.
When I advised them that it was a bad idea to store password in clear, they answered that they keep it in clear so that they can send it when someone forget.
Defeated by such argument, I deleted my account.
Re: Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
#10I have no problem with my credentials being revoked everywhere before I know about a layoff. I don't really care how I learn about it, just please don't make me come in to the office.
So this was why the FBI Director Kash Patel was in a panic when he couldn't log in one day. Revoking credentials before firing someone makes a lot of sense in security.