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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of September 21, 2020
- September 21st, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
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Former Bookkeeper Sentenced To Prison For Embezzling $370,000 From Employer – September 18, 2020 From approximately August 2016 to August 2018, Lydia Cabrera was employed by A2Z Home Medical Supplies (A2Z) as a bookkeeper. As part of her job responsibilities,… Read More
Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of September 13, 2020
- September 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, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, 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, tradesecrets, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former Employee Sentenced To Prison For Making $460,000+ Of Unauthorized Company Credit Card Charges – September 11, 2020 Sheri Jelinek was an employee at the Iowa City Area Development Group (ICAD) from 2003 until January of 2017. After leaving her… Read More
Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of August 31, 2020
- September 3rd, 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, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, insiderthreat, 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, tradesecrets, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former Pacific Gas And Electric Company Employee Pleads Guilty To $1.4 Million+ Fraud Kickback Conspiracy – August 31, 2020 Ronald Schoenfeld, while employed at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), conspired to obtain contracts from PG&E for his cousin’s transportation… Read More
Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of August 17, 2020
- August 18th, 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, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, insiderthreat, 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, tradesecrets, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former CEO Charged With Embezzling $547,000+ From Employer By Creating Fake Company – August 13, 2020 According to the indictment, Jason Cory was the Chief Executive Officer of an information technology services company. From approximately March 2017 through March 2019,… Read More
Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of August 3, 2020
- August 4th, 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, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, insiderthreat, 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, top, trade, tradesecrets, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Atlanta City Councilman Indicted For Multiple Fraud Charges Against Several Financial Institutions – July 29, 2020 Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Brown has been indicted on multiple fraud charges in connection with Brown’s attempts to defraud several financial institutions by taking… Read More
Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of July 26, 2020
- July 26th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, bribery, bribes, card, care, charged, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, corruption credit, cost, costs, counterintelligence, critical, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, identity, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, infrastructure, insider, insiderthreat, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, national, network, nispom, policy, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, terrorism, theft, threat, top, trade, tradesecrets, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, wire, workforce, working, workplace
Former Employee Of Debt Collection Agency, Sentenced To Prison On Wire Fraud Charge For Her Role In $3,000,000+ Debt Collection Scheme – July 24, 2020 Between January 2014 and February 2017, Shauniqua Rodriguez conspired with others in a debt collection… Read More
Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of July 21 2020
- July 21st, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, behavioral, breach, care, china, chinese, classified, confidential, corporate, cost, costs, damages, data, disclosure, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employees, employer, espionage, example, examples, financial, fired, former, fraud, government, guilty, health, healthcare, incident, incidents, indicators, indicted, information, insider, insiderthreat, management, manager, medicare, mitigation, network, prison, program, research, risk, risks, sabotage, scheme, secret, secrets, sensitive, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, terminated, theft, threat, top, trade, tradesecrets, trusted, unauthorized, university, violence, workforce, workplace
U.S. University Researcher Charged With VISA Fraud And Concealed Her Membership In Chinese Military – July 21, 2020 Song Chen has been charged in a criminal complaint with visa fraud in connection with a scheme to lie about her status… Read More
Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of July 15, 2020
- July 15th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: arrested, bank, banking, blackmail, bribery, bribes, care, charged, china, chinese, costs, counterintelligence, damages, disgruntled, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employer, espionage, examples, financial, former, fraud, guilty, health, healthcare, incidents, insider, insiderthreat, laundering, management, manager, medicare, money, murder, network, prison, program, sabotage, sabotaging, scheme, sentenced, steal, stealing, stole, stolen, terrorism, theft, threat, threats, violence, wire, workplace
Former Daycare Worker Pleads Guilty To Producing Child Pornography – July 15, 2020 Titus Miller was employed at Playful Painters Daycare, located in Lincoln Nebraska. Miller worked at night and was a supervisor at the daycare. During the time periods… Read More
Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of July 8, 2020
- July 8th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: 2, air, army, assessment, assessments, awareness, bank, banking, based, breach, bribery, bribes, care, certification, change, chinese, classified, conforming, corruption, course, damages, data, disgruntled, dod, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employer, espionage, examples, force, former, fraud, group, guilty, health, healthcare, hub, incidents, information, insider, insiderthreat, laundering, legal, management, manager, marines, military, money, national, navy, network, nispom, official, policy, program, risk, sabotage, sabotaging, scheme, secrets, senior, steal, stealing, stole, talents, terrorism, theft, thousand, threat, threats, trade, training, violence, web, wire, working, workplace
CEO Of Startup Company Pleads Guilty To Stealing Over $1.5 Million From His Company – July 8, 2020 Jeffrey Fildey, founder and former CEO of San Diego startup GoFormz Inc. pleaded guilty today to stealing more than $1,500,000 from his… Read More
Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of June 29, 2020
- June 30th, 2020
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
- Tags: bank, banking, bribery, bribes, care, damages, embezzle, embezzlement, embezzling, employee, employer, examples, former, fraud, health, healthcare, incidents, insider, laundering, management, manager, money, network, program, sabotage, sabotaging, scheme, secrets, steal, stealing, stole, stolen, theft, threat, threats, trade, wire
Former Employee Sentenced To Prison For Embezzling $1.8 Million From Commercial Real Estate Company – June 29, 2020 Milan Capital employed Duy Duc Nguyen as an accounts payable clerk in its accounting department from July 2014 to December 2017. Beginning… Read More

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