Hopefully if it's the Director of Security telling me to do it, I'm not liable, right?

Just say you were experimenting with AI and it broke out of the sandbox....they'll give you a raise

Investigators found that on November 22, while planning his extortion plot, Rhyne used his account on a hidden virtual machine to search the web for information on changing domain user passwords, deleting domain accounts, and clearing Windows logs.

Company account? Not the best idea.

At least it was fun

Not only is he a fucking idiot he's also incredibly cringe.

Opsec my dude, Opsec.

...he also searched on his laptop for "command line to change local administrator password," "command line to remotely change local administrator password," and "how to remotely shutdown a computer usign cmd."

shittysysadmin criminal mastermind.

If only they'd had a 15 character minimum password length... (/s)