Victorian Transport Department calls cops on 16 year old for reporting bug that exposed customers' personal data

And yet the Transport Dept (VTD) took the time to report him to the authorities. Reasonable threshold of communication or not, they still screwed the kid after he attempted to help as a private citizen. It’s the VTD’s responsibility to screen their own communications–the kid has no compunction to help them otherwise (he’s not an employee or contractor for them–he notified them out of altruism or whatever you’d like to call it).