Inappropriate material on work computer

[Katrinawaves]

I’ve found myself in a mess and not sure what to do.

Been having marital problems with my husband and have recently discovered he’s been using online porn, websites for extramarital affairs and also booked a threesome with prostitutes online. As if that wasn’t enough of a total headfuck, last night I discovered that our google browsing history on our home computer has synched with my work computer and all these sites are in the browsing history on my work laptop.

I told my boss as soon as I became aware and have just been emailed to say that a meeting has been set up on Monday with the head of cyber security at work. Am now even more stressed and panicking. WTF do I do now.

I’ve never shared my work password with my husband and I don’t think he has downloaded anything via my work computer. This is just I think a syncing issue. I’ve only been employed for 10 months so have no employment rights. Have an otherwise exemplary HR record.

You dont need to be signed into a google account to use chrome

You dont need to be signed into a google account to use chrome

No, but if you check a Gmail account or Google drive or anything else Google owns, it'll sign you in anyway.

They blocked webmail at our place, because of the virus and security risk.

I don’t think you have anything to worry about. Cybersecurity tends to only get involved in these types of things to ensure you haven’t opened the company up to any hacking / unauthorised log in attempts. They should be able to clearly see if there’s a synching issue. Guess is that the Head of Cyber is getting involved because there might be scope for him to learn from this incident and change procedures / sign on processes. Forcing staff to use personal sign ins and not having a clear policy around permitted browsers does not make a cyber team look competent.

Sounds sexist too, but presuming it’s not illegal porn this is one time when being female helps. They will be far more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt in a judgemental scenario than if you were male.

What happened @Katrinawaves, how did you get on?