Cybercriminal Twins Caught After They Forgot to Turn Off Microsoft Teams Recording
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Source: Wired (Security)May 16, 2026
Summary
Two brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, were caught and pleaded guilty to destroying 96 government databases after being fired from their jobs at federal contractor Opexus. They were caught because they forgot to close a Microsoft Teams meeting (a video conferencing tool) during their termination meeting, and the software continued recording hours of their detailed planning and discussion of how they would delete the company's databases as revenge.
Classification
Attack SophisticationModerate
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Original source: https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-cybercriminal-twins-caught-after-they-forgot-to-turn-off-microsoft-teams-recording/
First tracked: May 16, 2026 at 08:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%