At the heart of I.T. security is the vaunted firewall. A technology so profound, not a single Hollywood movie has described it correctly. Hacking through a firewall is more complicated than typing admin for the username/password combo. It takes skill. It takes determination. It takes cleverness. Or, it just takes the fire extinguisher kept 10 feet (6 meters) away at all times.
CCTV footage caught the entire event. A party of 3 arrived through the server room entrance. The mage tried to cast a spell, but runes stopped her. The rogue ran away, scared of fire apparently. But the ranger, steadfast and true, grabbed the fire extinguisher and extinguished the hell out of the firewall.
"Like straight out of a movie," said Isaiah Noble, an I.T. admin. "The craziest part was what came next. After seeing the servers behind the firewall, they just left." (Editorializing here. There's no way that was the craziest part. They had an actual spellcaster FFS.)
The ranger spoke to us under the condition of anonymity. "We were told there was treasure in the server room. It was supposed to be like every other quest. We wanted treasures and XP, not PII. When I realized the only way to get treasure was to pop a shell and mine bitcoin, we left."
Take this as a reminder that physical security is just as important as digital security.