Hacking into your former paper's website?

I meant to fix them before posting here, but forgot to.

 

I had email access to my first paper five years after I left. I found out when I got an email sent to my personal email saying that my mailbox was full.

 

The Continental coffee was always the best.

 

Haha. Timothy's coffee.

They were the first chain in NYC to have a lot of outlets, and we were trying to be very New York centric.

At the time, I really wasn't much of a coffee drinker.

 

It would be very easy for a disgruntled ex-employee to get into most paper's systems, especially if they planned ahead and/or knew other people's codes.

 

I'm still trying to figure out why someone would post a story on a former website. Was this just a straight up story? Does he/she realize page views are being taken away from the new place and being given to the old. Maybe I am just misunderstanding what happened here.

 

I know for a fact that I would be able to get into our online system for as long as I would want to if I were to leave. Pretty sure they'd lock me out of the print system and email, though.

 

This was what I was wondering. Makes no sense to me. Was this a local story for both sites? Odd. Can't imagine having the thought of doing such a thing.

 

I still have the Twitter and Facebook passwords for my old shop, in part because I had to use my personal laptop for work. The paper's Twitter account hasn't been used since I left more than two years ago, though each week the Twitter logo is still on the front page and is on the website. I bet I could access my old work e-mail via Outlook as well. The only reason I can't access the administrative part of the website is the paper went to a new provider right after I left.