• @andrewta
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    2066 months ago

    He didn’t hack anything. He used a password that wasn’t changed.

    • @Land_Strider
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      866 months ago

      Which was also used repeatedly over the course of 3-4 months to gain access via a non-corporate laptop without the IT doing anything about it.

      • @Zer0_F0x
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        116 months ago

        I’ve been in IT for a few years and I’ve changed companies a few times. I just checked my login creds for various systems of 3 previous employers and like half of them still work. Unfortunately it’s a lot more common than any IT department would like to admit

    • @[email protected]
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      596 months ago

      It’s only hacking if it’s in a CVE.

      Anything else is just sparkling unauthorized access.

      • @[email protected]
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        106 months ago

        That’s just not true.

        1. Zero days
        2. Social Engineering
        3. Things that just don’t receive a CVE, because there are many more vulnerabilities than there are CVEs
        • @Evotech
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          106 months ago

          Social engineering isn’t hacking. It’s social engineering

    • yeehaw
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      6 months ago

      Technically he was not authorized to use the computer system due to his termination which the law looks at and calls hacking.

      • @KISSmyOSFeddit
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        246 months ago

        No, the law specifically called this “unauthorized access to computer material”. It’s right there in the article.

        • yeehaw
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          -86 months ago

          I said the law looks at whether it was authorized access or not, I was not citing any literal lines from the law. Didn’t read the article because I know this already because of the industry I work in and I took a course a number of years ago that literally was about this.

      • @andrewta
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        16 months ago

        I’ll give you half a point because technically you are right.

    • @Dkarma
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      106 months ago

      He also didn’t delete servers