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Yet another close shave for Quincy’s peerless mayor

Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Leaks a plenty!

In what was Quincy Quarry New’s most technologically advanced investigative reporting exposé to date, this past week the Quarry exposéd just how compromised are the City of Quincy email accounts of key players on Team Koch.

Granted, the ever-growing legions of loyal Quincy Quarry readers know that the Koch Machine is variously, if not also ll but thoroughly, compromised, this Quincy Quarry exposé exposéd just how compromised have been a number of high profile City of Quincy and Quincy Retirement Board email accounts as well as by that extension it would only be reasonable to suspect deeply flawed procedures were at least formerly used for moving serious amounts of money.

A hack attack hacker
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How flawed?  For example, the $3.5 million cyberheist occurred in February of last year but which was said to have only been uncovered in October of last year and thus eight months later.

Further troubling is how the public disclosure of the cyberheist only just became known to the public last month care of solid investigative reporting by WCVB Channel 5 breaking the story.

Needless to say, what the Q?

Accordingly, Quincy Quarry unleashed its cyber hounds and so found that many of a select sampling of City of Quincy email addresses of key Koch Maladministration players were compromised.

Quincy Quarry’s cyberhounds hitting the trail
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Amazingly, “The Beav“ was not a techie in high school
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For example, it was it great surprise that Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Thomas P. Koch and his bother-in-law Quincy Police Chief Paul “The Beav“ Keenan were among those with the most compromised personal information tied to their respective City of Quincy email accounts.

What was surprising was that the Quarry found that a password had been hacked for the City of Quincy email account for the now former head of the Quincy Retirement Board that was used roughly two months after she left the job to apparently pull off the cyberheist of $3.5 million almost two years before she left the job with the retirement board.

Granted, her email password might have been changed after it was hacked and before the cyberheist; at the same time there are ways to tell from the City of Quincy’s email log if the password hacker may have been able to score any password changes on the down-low.

Easy money!
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Regardless, everything reported to date suggests that the money was all but handed over on a cyber platter to the Business Email Compromise (BEC) cyber thief.

In any event, the Quincy Retirement Board has at least postponed appearing before the Quincy City Council to explain things as well as did so abruptly at that. 

That and retained its own choice of an outside firm to review what was wrong with its security procedures.

The City of Quincy’s cybersecurity team
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So what, apparently, for the fact that the retirement board should not be in charge of investigating itself. 

Instead, the Quincy Retirement Board should be relying on the ongoing state pension board investigation as well as seek out the services of the Massachusetts State Auditor.

Reasons for this course of action include that both of these state entities are independent, have the germane expertise needed as well as probably only the State Auditor might have to charge for such a special review even if such costs would all but assuredly run less than most any review by an outside commercial entity would cost.

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