IDENTITY UNDER ATTACK · EPISODE 11

One Login, Many People

A new sign-in to the team's image library at 11:50 PM. Four people use that password. Nobody could say which of them it was.

The alert said someone had signed in. It could not say who, because as far as the account knew, everyone was the same person.

11:50 PM. Monday.

The alert went to the team's shared inbox, so nobody saw it until morning.

At nine, Jordan read it out. "Who signed in to the image library at midnight?"

Silence. Then everyone started talking at once. Sam had used it on Sunday from home. Aarav had used it on his laptop last week. Jordan had used it himself on Friday. One of the freelancers had asked for the password a month ago. And the login was written on a sticky note inside the stationery cupboard, where it had been for three years.

"So," said Aarav, "how do we know which one of us it was?"