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   Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 19:43:58 JST Kevin Beaumont

   British Museum has an ongoing IT outage as a former IT employee walked in and wiped their systems https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9qjde4wnqo

   • Rich Felker and Cory Doctorow repeated this.
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     Luka Rubinjoni (rubinjoni@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 21:45:27 JST Luka Rubinjoni

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     @GossiTheDog Wiped? It would be more on brand to just take some key components and refuse to return them.

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     Tom Walker (tomw@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 21:45:48 JST Tom Walker

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     @GossiTheDog Maybe just took all their data for "safekeeping"?

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     MightyPirate™ 🏴‍☠️ (ithreepwood@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 00:44:06 JST MightyPirate™ 🏴‍☠️

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @GossiTheDog @pluralistic "A British Museum spokesman told the BBC: "An IT contractor who was dismissed last week trespassed into the museum and shut down several of our systems.""

     What kind of security/access policy is that? Made by toddlers? Usually people get their credentials revoked the minute the project is over/they get the boot, criticals even _before_ someone gets told "you don't work here anymore"...