Posted on 11/23/2023 7:44:36 AM PST by Salman
The self-described "gay furry hackers" of SiegedSec are back: this time boasting they've broken into America's biggest nuclear power lab's computer systems and stolen records on thousands of employees. Some of that data has already been leaked, it appears.
SiegedSec, which also claimed to have breached NATO's IT security on two occasions this year, said it has now hit Idaho National laboratory (INL), which is run by the US Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy. Employee Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and bank account data are among the information said to have been pinched.
The lab has at least acknowledged its HR systems suffered a cyberattack.
"On Monday, November 20, Idaho National Laboratory determined that it was the target of a cybersecurity data breach in a federally approved vendor system outside the lab that supports INL cloud Human Resources services," spokesperson Lori McNamara told The Register today.
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Mistake #1
Many years ago I was trained at one of the reactors out there in Idaho. Obviously things have changed.
No organization that needs to keep their systems secure should have the secure data attached to a network that can be accessed by the ordinary internet. Of course, there are always idiots. When I was at General Dynamics a high-level manager* sent a fishing email from his home system to his corporate account and opened it there. It shut down the IT system worldwide.
* How do I know he was high level? When I discussed the issue with my buddies in IT and asked if the culprit would be fired, they said, “not at his level.” Anyone below the first tier of managers would have gotten skid marks on his butt from hitting the parking lot asphalt.
Wanna get away?
Mistake #1
A mushroom cloud?
I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a furry mole inside the lab…
This means it was already hacked by China and should never have been connected to the internet.
Gay furry hackers?....... 😳
Democrats? Eh?
This should be The Babylon Bee.
If they already attacked NATO, they’re probably Russian hackers
only Russia hates NATO that much
(why? see tagline)
The least they could have done is tackle an organization whose specialty is creating catgirls. Then they'd be making some sense.
“Many years ago I was trained at one of the reactors out there in Idaho. Obviously things have changed.”
What has changed?
We didn't have furries hacking our computers. In fact , at the time , there was not any computers there at all!
INL was not breeched. It was an offsite vendor
Really hard to tell the difference between The Babylon Bee and Not the Bee these days
Real life should NOT read like satire.
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