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In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] BaldProphet@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My question is who thought it was a good idea to put a test account on a production system?

[โ€“] SaintWacko@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago

Sometimes you need to verify a production bug, and you need an account with which to do so