SOHAIB: “Still connected? Still on the VPN?”

SOHAIB: “Delete all their databases?”

MUNEEB: “Eh, they can recover them…backups, I’m pretty sure.”

SOHAIB: “Daily backups?”

MUNEEB: “Yup.”

SOHAIB: “What’s the plan [then]? We gonna take care of severance or are we gonna do something about…” “Should we retort to whatever they send us by saying we need $25,000 each? Hm?”

MUNEEB: “We are doing petty shit now.”

MUNEEB: “I’m going to wipe my computer clean.”

SOHAIB: “I can’t access the system but I still have the email address for their customers for eCase and FOIAXpress.”

MUNEEB and SOHAIB discuss being compensated by Company-1.

MUNEEB: “I’m not gonna threaten them shit, that’s like could be shown as some sort of . . .”

SOHAIB: “It depends on how you write it. Just say, ‘according to our previous agreement, this is the tally of the amount that I’ve been [paid], if you pay it up front, then I have no reason to communicate with customers.’”

MUNEEB: “I’m good.”

SOHAIB: “Whatcha working on man?”

MUNEEB: “Nothing important, man.”

SOHAIB: “Why won’t you tell me? I ain’t gonna snitch.”

MUNEEB: “Don’t need to. Don’t worry about it.”

MUNEEB: “People are logged out for the day, this is the perfect time.”

SOHAIB: “How do you still have access? When did you connect to their VPN?”

MUNEEB: “10 minutes before their stupid meeting.”

SOHAIB: “You might still have access to it until the end of the day. Until at least 6 hours.”

MUNEEB: “Don’t worry about it man. Don’t worry about it.”

SOHAIB: “I see you are cleaning out their database backups.”

MUNEEB: “Don’t worry about it. You don’t do nothing. Don’t try nothin’. They are looking at you, they are not looking at me.”

SOHAIB: “[G]oing to RDP into their systems and delete all their data.”

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SOHAIB: “The ramifications for that would be worse though.”

MUNEEB: “What are you talking about? I didn’t do nothing. They closed my access when they had that meeting.”

SOHAIB: “Alright, if you have good plausible deniability.”

SOHAIB and MUNEEB then have additional discussion about deleting backups and changing DNS information.

MUNEEB: “Eh, they can recover from yesterday. [The IT manager] will have some work to do.”

MUNEEB and SOHAIB discuss Company-1 customers, including Veteran’s Affairs OIG, Education Department OIG, DHS OIG, and customer data.

MUNEEB: “DHS was a big [customer].”

SOHAIB: “Just go into each of them and start the delete process. It will take its time. . . It will eventually delete all their files.”

MUNEEB: “Sabes, don’t say nothin’, OK, don’t worry about it.”

SOHAIB: “I ain’t sayin’ shit.”

SOHAIB: “You should have thought about it prior, man.”

MUNEEB: “What do you mean? Like had a kill script, what do you mean?”

SOHAIB: “Blackmailing them in for some money would’ve been…”

MUNEEB: “No, you do not do that. That’s proof of guilt, man.”

SOHAIB: “No but the thing was you always have your opinion, I could just communicate with their customers.”

MUNEEB: “Communicate with their customers is a different thing!”

SOHAIB: “So you’re saying these are two separate things?”

MUNEEB: “There ya go. Go say that man, go argue for that, then they’ll think you’re the one behind this shit.”

SOHAIB: “. . . They’re gonna probably raid this place.”

MUNEEB: “Eh, I’ll clean this shit up. I don’t got shit.”

SOHAIB: “We also gotta clean stuff up from the other house man.”

MUNEEB: “Get rid of that shit.”

SOHAIB: “Deleting their filesystems would be a harder fix.”

MUNEEB: “Mhhmm, especially if you clear it out.”

MUNEEB: “Everything that I did, I’m making sure it’s protected. That it’s clean.”

MUNEEB: “Don’t worry, we’ll go to Texas.”