Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired

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“Yeah, they could,” Sohaib agreed.

Muneeb noted that an employee they knew would “have some work to do” when the destruction was revealed.

Sohaib fed Muneeb more suggestions.

“Delete their filesystem as well?” he said.

“Smart idea,” said Muneeb.

Sohaib then wondered if they had been too hasty. Perhaps, he said, “You shoulda had a kill script. Like, blackmailing them for some money would have been—”

“No, you do not do that, that’s proof of guilt, man,” Muneeb said.

“No, but the thing was, you always have your opinion,” Sohaib complained, and the two then bickered about whether they might try to blackmail their company’s customers instead.

As the data destruction went on, Sohaib said, “They’re gonna probably raid this place.”

“I’ll clean this shit up,” Muneeb said.

After wiping out the databases and event logs, the brothers reinstalled the operating systems on their corporate laptops with the help of...

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