A lesson for future hackers and dishonest employees: When someone, along with, say, your twin brother, decides to destroy your employer’s computer network, remember to first close the Teams meeting where you just got fired.
It’s a lesson that, hopefully, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter They will now have learned: we must not let our revenge plans be recorded.
The two hackers pleaded guilty to charges related to the destruction of 96 databases government after having been fired from their jobs at the company Opexus, contracted by the North American Federal Government.
The two brothers are being held in a federal prison. Sohaib was considered guiltyin a trial that took place in Texas last week. Muneeb, who had pleaded guilty in April, has since tried to withdraw his confessioninsistently, through a series of handwritten letters sent to the judge.
The story is bizarre to say the least. The employer decided to fire the two brothers, aged 34, after find out your criminal recordwhich included several accusations of computer piracy and electronic fraud for crimes as petty as airline miles theft.
The two brothers were fired in a meeting via Teamswhich only lasted a few minutes. The planning detailed and proper execution of your campaign of revenge went on for hours — and were completely recorded in the same Teams meeting that they forgot to close.
A full transcript of the two brothers’ conversation was included in a court document to which he had access.
“Are you still connected? Are you still on the VPN?”, Sohaib is heard asking his brother, who lived in the same house. “Blackmailing them for money would have been… come on delete all their databases?”
“Now we’re doing petty shit”, the twin brother responds to him. “Deleting their file systems would be more difficult to resolve…hhmm, especially if you clean it up.”
“Everything I did, I’m making sure you stay protected. That stays clean“, says Muneeb. Well, the truth is that it didn’t.
The two brothers are twins, but they are not exactly cybercrime geniuses; are actually just a pair of clumsy bumblers — that is, two incompetent idiots who thought they ask the AI how to cover its tracks would keep them out of federal prison, says Ars Technica.
