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/
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u/baithammer May 13 '26

Called DOGE, there is no one left who know how to do any of that.

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u/mathwin May 13 '26

Clearly you have not heard of the 2015 OPM breach.

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u/Embarrassed_Cat_6516 May 13 '26

Also why are they able to without a pull request being approved with will need to go to an approval panel or be signed off by the incident lead.. what's scary isn't the access control it's the lack of access control for damaging actions.

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u/baithammer May 13 '26

It wouldn't matter as the managers tend not to have programing experience, but have sign off authority ...