OH COME ON!!!! Stealing government secrets and spying on Americans is one thing, but stealing the stale Cheetoh’s from the government vending machine is crossing the damn line! – PB/TK
Government Hacking: CIA Contractors Fired For Stealing Thousands Of Dollars Of Snacks From Vending Machines – By AJ Dellinger / June 30 2017
A number of CIA contractors were fired from their positions at agency after it was discovered they had stolen thousands of dollars worth of snacks by hacking a vending machine, BuzzFeed News reported.
The scheme started in the fall of 2012 and carried on through March 2013, according to an October 2013 report from the Office of Inspector General that BuzzFeed News obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
To carry out the snack-stealing effort, the contractors took aim at FreedomPay, a cloud-based payments platform that is often used in vending machines to process payments from cards rather than only allowing cash payments.
Vending machines at the CIA’s campus used the FreedomPay network, which was connected to the CIA’s Agency Internet Network via a cable that allowed the machine to communicate with the payment platform’s remote server.
One of the contractors—who was known for his “knowledge of computer networks,” according to the Office of Inspector General report—unplugged the cable connecting the FreedomPay system, making it impossible for the machine to verify payment.
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