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In 2011 Tinley had refused to hand over the password to unlock the spreadsheet for editing when asked, claiming he was protecting his work product. > For years
by ChrisSD 7y ago
In 2011 Tinley had refused to hand over the password to unlock the spreadsheet for editing when asked, claiming he was protecting his work product.
> For years, the spreadsheet would glitch, Tinley would be hired to come in, would "fix" it, invoice Siemens, and head out again. But that all changed in May 2016 when Tinley was out of state, and Siemens called again about the spreadsheet. The company had an urgent order it had to put through, it told Tinley, and it wasn't working properly again. Pushed, Tinley relented and handed over the password.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/25/siemens_logic_bomb/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/25/siemens_logic_bomb/
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- auggierose 7y agoMust have been a brain freeze moment to hand over that password.
- 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y agoSounds to me like they used Tinley being out of state as an opportunity to push for the password. I’m sure they were suspecting something at that point.
- rumanator 7y agoMy guess is that they started suspecting something when he refused to hand over the password the first time, or at most the first time a problem occurred and he was the only person capable of fixing it.