One of the many reasons I’d never want to work there
Out of those two groups, Occam's razor implicates the one with a vested interest in currying favor with reporters.
I obviously wouldn't look in internal ticketing systems and THEN post to my findings to a public forum like HN. For obvious reasons.
2.) > "It seems much more likely this is typical left leaning employee activism that is prevalent at tech companies."
If standard security ticket procedures were followed, it would have been locked down to the security team and the impacted team (i.e. PR/social media).
The comment that it 'seems much more likely that this is typical left leaning employee activism' implies that there aren't left-leaning or activists within the security or PR departments. Which if you believe that... lul...
>"The real security incident here is how did the intercept learn of that ticket as that should really be classified."
Looks like someone from the security or PR departments took a picture of the ticket with their cellphone and sent them to the reporter.
Security tickets are immediately encrypted and locked down. Only a few members have access typically: The person who opened the ticket, anyone with a need-to-know, and people on the IR team. Even director-level employees need to be manually added to security-related tickets to have view permissions.