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Several CIA contractors were kicked out of the agency for stealing more than $3,000 in snacks from vending machines …

  

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Via:  johnrussell  •  7 years ago  •  10 comments

Several CIA contractors were kicked out of the agency for stealing more than $3,000 in snacks from vending machines …


Hungry CIA contractors stole more than $3,000 in snacks by hacking vending machines


June 21, 2017




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A number of CIA contractors were fired after stealing $3,324.40 worth of vending machine snacks between the fall of 2012 and the spring of 2013,  BuzzFeed News  reports .

The contractors were taught how to fool the office's vending machines into giving them free snacks by one particular employee who stewed up the plan using "his knowledge of computer networks," a declassified report from the Office of Inspector General revealed. BuzzFeed News  writes that the "hack" involved "unplugging a cable connecting the machines to an electronic payment system called FreedomPay, and then using 'unfunded FreedomPay cards' to buy the snacks at no cost." (Don't even think about it).

Unfortunately for the hungry contractors, "video footage recovered from the surveillance cameras captured numerous perpetrators engaged in the FreedomPay theft scheme, all of whom were readily identifiable as agency contract personnel," the report said.

For a bit of perspective: Assuming a bag of chips at the CIA offices costs around 50 cents, the contractors apparently made off with the equivalent of 6,648 bags of Doritos. 

http://theweek.com/speedreads/707385/hungry-cia-contractors-stole-more-than-3000-snacks-by-hacking-vending-machines




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JohnRussell
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link   seeder  JohnRussell    7 years ago

A ghetto kid who stole a tenth of that from a store would be put in prison. 

 
 
 
Jonathan P
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link   Jonathan P  replied to  JohnRussell   7 years ago

LOL

Derailing your own seed.

That's rich, John.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
link   seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Jonathan P   7 years ago

Was anyone arrested?  I don't see that in the story. 

They are probably fatter now though. 

 
 
 
Kavika
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link   Kavika     7 years ago

I wonder if they were required to pay back the $3,000 plus.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Principal
link   Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Kavika   7 years ago

Probably not. 

 
 

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