The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

Pwned Welcome to Pwned, The Register's new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we're sure it has protected against a lot more exploits than it has caused. But in this case, the desire for everyone's favorite stimulant led to a massive breach.

Our story comes to us courtesy of a reader we'll Regomize as TR, a digital forensics investigator with almost two decades of experience.

He describes a situation where a corporate client called because they thought that their server room had been invaded by a rival after suffering a data breach. Rather than jump to that conclusion, TR and his company spent several days looking for malware and other vulnerabilities on the network. What they found was rather surprising.

It turned out that ...