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Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information. (www.404media.co)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's likely that HIS credentials were revoked, but anyone in IT will tell you there many systems which are accessed by a shared direct username/password login, and yes while that should be changed when needed a much easier solution would be to lock those apps/sites behind a VPN which is much easier to revoke access to.

[โ€“] Fosheze 13 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Nothing with shared credentials should be directly accessible to someone off site to begin with. Either way things went down they have a security hole you could fly a blimp through. Either they aren't revoking credentials properly or they have eternally facing systems using shared credentials.