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Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction

theregister·Connor Jones·24 days ago
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A Virginia man, Sohaib Akhter, faces decades in prison after a jury convicted him of being involved in a scheme to delete approximately 96 databases containing US government data. The events of the case transpired around two weeks before the twin brothers allegedly involved were fired from their jobs at a software supplier to the US government. Sohaib and Muneeb Akhter, both 34, allegedly worked together on February 1, 2025, to access the account of an unnamed individual who submitted a complaint through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s public portal. According to the  Justice Department , Muneeb asked Sohaib for the individual’s plaintext password. Prosecutors say Sohaib provided the credential, which Muneeb then used to gain unauthorized access to the account.…

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