I've been a sub to LTT for a while, but I'm new to the forums. I wanted to start off doing a thread about Cybersecurity war stories. Post any and all interesting stories related to Cybersecurity that you've experienced or heard from friends/colleges.
(Let me know if this isn't the right place for this post)
Once upon a time, someone who should have known better saved a file full of PCI data to the company's shared drive. Like, names, SSNs, DOBs, everything. I found it when going into their folder to drop off a couple of files I'd been working on. As soon as I opened it, I walked straight over to the IT director and told them what I'd found. Their face turned as white as mine. We decided that in order to avoid creating massive headaches for ourselves the next morning, we would simply delete the file and they'd remote into said person's laptop to make sure it wasn't saved on there anywhere. If it was, we'd have to report it. It wasn't, so we left it there, and I might have casually mentioned to said person that if they're going to make a big deal about PCI compliance, they probably shouldn't save Social Security Numbers on the shared drive.
Then there was the time that the same person caused an interstellar incident by telling the CEO that I was saving SSNs on my company laptop. That conversation went well. I got a call from my boss wanting to know what the hell that person was talking about. I told the truth: I had no idea. I went in the next morning and the head of HR paid me a visit. I told them to go ahead and search my laptop on the spot, or invite in the IT director to do it, maybe even have the idiot who accused me standing over their shoulder to walk them through to exactly where I was keeping all of this nonexistent data on my laptop. The HR director laughed and said that wasn't necessary.
I might have mentioned the SSN file to the HR director at that point.
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