Update: The Story of the Pakistani Twins Accused of Deleting U.S. Government Databases After Getting Fired Just Got Funnier
19th May 2026
Not long ago, we covered the story of the Ahkter twins: hackers who the Biden administration had hired despite their illegal hacking history, and how when they got fired, they took out a few government databases with them.
But it was odd was how precise the government was able to relate the pair’s conversations during the mass deletion caper.
Were they bugged?
The answer to that is a hilarious “no.”
Arstechnica discovered that they had been fired via a Teams meeting, and the twins had simply forgot to turn off the recording while they committed their crime.
Government employees tend not to be the sharpest knives in the drawer.