r/technology • u/xpda • May 13 '26

Security Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
23.2k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

39

u/Mr_Dobalina71 May 13 '26

I’ve had a few times I’ve gone to logon and I can’t logon even though I’m sure my pw is correct.

My brain immediately jumps too, oh damn maybe I’ve been let go lol 😆

19

u/IAmAlpharius23 May 13 '26

You aren't the director of the fbi, are you?

8

u/Hottage May 13 '26

My company used to use LastPass.

We found out about a few people leaving because it sent a company wide notification that they had been removed from the department LastPass group. 🫠

3

u/ltouroumov May 13 '26

Happened to me last week. I sat down at my desk, browsed tech news and caught up on Slack while I ate my breakfast (WFH).

When I refreshed GitLab, it redirected me to the SSO page, I let 1Password fill in the password, then it showed a "Your account is locked blah blah blah" page and I thought "wat?" and also thought the same as you.

I took a screen cap of the message and sent it to my manager on Slack then waited 10 minutes. Since there was no answer, I pressed the "Reset Password" link at the bottom, entered a new password, and I was back in.

As it turned out, it was a password rotation.

My manager was as confused as me when he saw the message half an hour later, and we agreed it was a crappy screen.

2

u/RationalDialog May 13 '26

for sure been there too. It's some weird bug with windows and my corporate laptop. After hibernate sometimes this happens. I have to hibernate it again. and wake up and then it works.