Zwillingsbrüder löschen Minuten nach ihrer Entlassung 96 Regierungsdatenbanken
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
Zwillingsbrüder löschen Minuten nach ihrer Entlassung 96 Regierungsdatenbanken
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
38 Kommentare
Dude went scorched earth
Minutes after being fired? That’s not unemployment, that’s low-latency revenge.
Now do this with the student loan database
How are you not going to revoke all access before they’re able to get back on any computer
Bobby Tables is all grown up now!
And this is why you have backups. Especially the 3-2-1 backups where possible.
Just fire up some AI to fix it
Convicted of wire fraud, yet still got a security clearance…..no words.
> 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.
How the hell did they get security clearances?
It’s wild that this only required a single SQL DROP command. What the hell is going on at these companies? Like 0 security, offline backups, or adherence to foundational best practices.
I’m just here to complain about the terrible image they used. Sorry the battery on my standalone delete key is running low, let me just plug it in…
Just doing the jobs real Americans won’t do
Are they the matrix twins?
people say tv shows are unrealistic but i watched several episodes showing people either being blocked or followed around by someone from security until they leave…..i thought thats how they did it in real life
>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.
Now HOLD the fuck up. DC is contracting companies that store passwords UNHASHED?? Plaintext?? What kind of clownshow is this?
Why fire both of them at once.
30 caliber ammo? Like old school m1 garand?
Lol awesome
unregistered guns as convicted felons, access to databases with plaintext passwords, barely any punishment, out free for months even after being caught… what a massive shit show.
Two brothers!
Dude doesn’t sound very bright
>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.
This belongs in news of the stupid. How are you going to hire ex-cons and put them in a position to commit the same crimes they went to prison for?
Trump could have sold that data for so much coke money, and now it’s gone. What a tragedy.
They should have backups in place.
Data loss should be limited to your backup frequency interval.
There are multiple things here that I would consider to be more concerning than an employee deleting a database.
This is just *appalling.* Nothing this government is doing is competent at all from start to finish in this story. These bros stole incredibly sensitive data that some utterly crappy contractor (see name in article) had way too much access to.
Additionally, these specific guys are way too well-placed and way too well-trained. Reading the article, they were using American citizens‘ data like a personal punching bag. I would not doubt these were agents of some state, whether a nation or an ideology. The fact they may have gotten incompetent representation is concerning, they could walk on technicality.
Love the ‘this is what a delete button might look like’ picture.
Don’t worry, the DOGE bros have a copy
They never delete student loans!!
Need someone to wipe that many people’s debt
When I was involved in layoffs, HR had coordinated with IT to cut access to all systems 5 minutes into our scheduled meeting start time.
On the other hand, I’ve heard of stories of IT employees leaving deadman switches that they have to turn off every morning they get in as well. Probably exaggerated stories.
Based gigachad
Worked on a project mapping out water systems for a region. Reason being state government privatised their water management for the region & didn’t properly communicate with staff that they were keeping their jobs.
Staff held burning parties, they deleted all plans on the server & burnt all physical copies of water infrastructure in oil drums they’d placed in the parking lot.
About 20 people lost their jobs over it.
Did any of those databases include student loan dads?
Burn warehouses down, wipe data?
Quite a world we live in, can you imagine the US in 10 and 20 years?
Frightening.
rule one of termination in IT: revoke access BEFORE the conversation. the fact that a government agency didn’t do this is genuinely scary.
>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.
After their stints in jail, the brothers worked their way back into the tech world. In 2023, Muneeb got a job with a Washington, DC, firm that sold software and services to 45 federal clients; Sohaib got a job at the same company a year later.
Looks like the problem was trusting them with this in the first place.
From the management side, laying people off sucks eggs. It’s stressful for everyone, not just the employee being let go. To make it worse, every quarter I’d have to identify the „bottom“ <whatever percent> of my staff, and then my boss and I would then have to figure it which of them to let go.
I actually told my boss once to take break a raise I had gotten, so that I could save someone from being laid off.
It wasn’t that the company was losing money, it was that there were too many offices across the country, which was actually wasting money. In the space of a year, they went from 11 facilities to 4. We did offer relocation to more then 50% of the workforce, if there were willing to move.
Still sucked.
minutes after being fired means they either had a plan or the security was so bad it took minutes to wipe 96 databases. both are terrifying.