Former Government Contractor Sentenced To Prison For Role In U.S. Army Contracts Bribery And Kickback Scheme – January 15, 2021 John Winslett admitted that from 2011 to 2018, he paid over $100,000 worth of bribes to two U.S. Army contracting… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of January 18, 2021
- January 18th, 2021
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of January 4, 2021
- January 4th, 2021
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption, cost, costs, counterintelligence, credit, critical, cyber, cybersecurity, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, impacts, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, investigation, investigations, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, security, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, top, trade, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former Comptroller Sentenced To Prison For Stealing $672,00+ From Employer Over 6 Years – December 23, 2020 Kent Crump admitted that while he was working as the comptroller for Park City Dry Cleaning and Linen Corporation, that he defrauded the… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of December 15, 2020
- December 15th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption, cost, costs, counterintelligence, credit, critical, cyber, cybersecurity, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, impacts, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, investigation, investigations, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, security, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, top, trade, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former Defense Department Official Arrested For Taking Cash To Aid Contractor’s Request For $6.4 Million Payment – December 14, 2020 Nizar Farhat was a former construction manager based at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California…. Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of December 7, 2020
- December 7th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption, cost, costs, counterintelligence, credit, critical, cyber, cybersecurity, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, impacts, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, investigation, investigations, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, security, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, top, trade, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former Supervisor Drug Manufacturer Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Medical Products Valued At $1 Million+ – December 4, 2020 Gregory Settino was the production supervisor of manufacturing at Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Shirley, New York. In January 2019, Luitpold was… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of November 24, 2020
- November 24th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption, cost, costs, counterintelligence, credit, critical, cyber, cybersecurity, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, impacts, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, investigation, investigations, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, security, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, top, trade, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former Lowe’s Employees Hacked Payroll Data System And Stole Paychecks Totaling $11,790+ – November 20, 2020 Solomon Smith and his co-worker Garrett Sivley used their access at a Lowe’s to redirect paychecks to themselves. Smith was the mastermind of the… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of November 11, 2020
- November 11th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption, cost, costs, counterintelligence, credit, critical, cyber, cybersecurity, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, impacts, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, investigation, investigations, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, security, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, top, trade, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former Bank Employee Charged With Issuing Debit Cards In Names Of Bank Customers, Then Used The Cards For Personal Use – November 9, 2020 Natasha Seetaram formerly worked at the Virgin Islands St. Thomas branch of a bank. She is… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of October 31, 2020
- October 31st, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption, cost, costs, counterintelligence, credit, critical, cyber, cybersecurity, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, impacts, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, investigation, investigations, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, security, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, top, trade, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Sentenced To Prison For Bribery Conspiracy With Foreign Defense Contractor Involving 50+ Individuals – October 30, 2020 Brooks Parks, a U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer, is that latest to be sentenced in the wide-ranging… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of October 21, 2020
- October 21st, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption, cost, costs, counterintelligence, credit, critical, cyber, cybersecurity, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, impacts, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, investigation, investigations, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, security, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, top, trade, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former Bank Teller Sentenced To Prison For Stealing $79,000+ Over 6 Years – October 21, 2020 Rebecca Teegarden was a bank teller at the First National Bank of Brooksville. Between 2013 and 2019, Teegarden admitted to repeatedly using customers’ names… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of October 12, 2020
- October 13th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption, cost, costs, counterintelligence, credit, critical, cyber, cybersecurity, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, impacts, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, investigation, investigations, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, security, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, top, trade, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Flight Attendant Sentenced To Prison For Smuggling Heroin To Pay For Daughter’s Medical Bills – October 9, 2020 A Malaysian flight attendant who funded her ailing daughter’s medical treatments by stuffing heroin into her underwear and smuggling it into Australia… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of September 27, 2020
- September 27th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption, cost, costs, counterintelligence, credit, critical, cyber, cybersecurity, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, impacts, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, investigation, investigations, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, security, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, top, trade, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former City Clerk Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Money Laundering Conspiracy – September 25, 2020 Kristy Conn pleaded guilty on Nov. 1, 2019, to conspiracy to commit money laundering. Conn admitted that she participated in the money-laundering conspiracy… Read More