> “I apologize that @afercia’s account got locked, that was not supposed to happen,” he wrote, adding that he was “tracking down who did that and reversing it.”
> Automattic-sponsored core committer Konstantin Obenland, who had disabled the account, quickly replied that he had reversed it. It’s understood the temporary ban was a mistake due to a genuine misunderstanding.
Actions like this remind me of that common phishing scam where some random employee buys thousands of dollars of gift cards and sends them somewhere, "because the CEO called me and asked me to do so".
> “I apologize that @afercia’s account got locked, that was not supposed to happen,” he wrote, adding that he was “tracking down who did that and reversing it.”
> Automattic-sponsored core committer Konstantin Obenland, who had disabled the account, quickly replied that he had reversed it. It’s understood the temporary ban was a mistake due to a genuine misunderstanding.
Actions like this remind me of that common phishing scam where some random employee buys thousands of dollars of gift cards and sends them somewhere, "because the CEO called me and asked me to do so".