Security News > 2023 > May > Your security failure was so bad we have to close the company .... NOT!

Reporting to Thaddeus was a head of operations, who we'll Regomize as "Max".

Max's younger brother was living with him at the time, which Thaddeus knew about.

One morning, Max called in to work to say he would be late.

Max therefore told Thaddeus that he would be late, and also that one of the computers confiscated was a laptop that belonged to the company - an innocent bystander caught up in the maelstrom.

Thankfully Susan didn't quite have Thaddeus's composure and cracked up laughing, at which point Max realized a joke was afoot.

As a postscript, Thaddeus says the police eventually realized that Max's brother wasn't actually up to any ill, and returned all the computer equipment.

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