Hungry programmers stole $3k worth of snacks from CIA candy machines

in #hacker7 years ago

vending-machine.jpgHungry programmers stole $3k worth of snacks from CIA candy machines

The compelling Central Intelligence Service (CIA) is a non military personnel association entrusted by the American Government to accumulate data and investigating it concerning national security data from around the globe. This is most likely one reason that it was uninformed that some smart programmers, working for one of the a huge number of temporary workers that are utilized inside the CIA building, grabbed about $3,000 worth of snacks from the CIA candy machines in 2013.

The machines work through cards, which should be finished up with stores on the web, and are worked by FreedomPay. The programmers discovered that by simply disengaging certain links in the candy machines this would empower them to apportion boundless measures of sustenance, regardless of the possibility that a card had come up short on cash.

All things considered, why might anybody keep this wellspring of free chocolate bars, crisps and different snacks to themselves, well liberal to a blame they didn't, they normally told the majority of their companions! Or maybe shockingly it took the CIA months to find that the machines must be topped off a considerable amount and the measure of money being gotten was decreasing, much the same as the snacks in the candy machines!

Well when the revelation was made, things being what they are the subtle offenders were not covert specialists or veteran Al-Qaeda chasers, but rather contractual workers working in the building. The CIA authorities under the Office of Inspector General (OIG) put reconnaissance cameras on the machines, and made sense of the trick, to numerous it might come as an unexpected that the CIA building is not secured with CCTV cameras!

The culprit, one of thousands of contractual workers in the CIA, conceded he had utilized his insight into PC systems to discover how to move a nibble without through the tedious procedure of paying. Normally his free snacks arrived at a sudden end as individuals from the scheme were gathered together, grilled and afterward escorted from the building and terminated by their managers. In the report which was discharged for the current week, which is vigorously redacted, the video film recuperated from the reconnaissance cameras caught various culprits occupied with the FreedomPay burglary plot, every one of whom were promptly identifiable as Agency contract staff.

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