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by nazgulsenpai 839 days ago
> However, the first detected unauthorised access to our network was identified at the Terminal Services server. This terminal server had been installed in February 2020 to facilitate efficient access for trusted external partners and internal IT administrators, as a replacement for the previous remote access system, which had been assessed as being insufficiently secure. Remote usage expanded during the subsequent Covid-19 pandemic because of the greatly increased requirement for remote working and the range of IT projects being undertaken with third party support.

While I'm certain they are underfunded and overworked, this sounds like they had an internet accessible terminal server. I'd like to imagine IT screaming this is a bad idea but a suit somewhere saying they needed easy access for partners. I can only imagine how insecure the solution they replaced with this one was.