Russian National Pleads Guilty For Conspiracy To Introduce Malware Into A Company’s Computer Network With Help Of Employee – March 18, 2021 Egor Kriuchkov, a citizen of Russia, was charged in a complaint with one count of conspiracy to intentionally… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of March 24, 2021
- March 25th, 2021
- Posted in Insider Threat Incidents
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of February 28, 2021
- February 28th, 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
Hackers Breach Water Treatment Plant SCADA System And Increase Filtering Chemicals To Toxic Level Because Of Lax Security By Employees – February 10, 2021 The Florida water treatment facility in Oldsmar, Florida, experienced a potentially hazardous computer breach because of… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of February 17, 2021
- February 17th, 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 Controller Of Oil & Gas Company Sentenced To Prison For $65 Million Bank Fraud Scheme Over 21 Years / 275 Employees Lost Jobs – February 4, 2021 In September 2020, Judith Avilez, the former Controller of Worley & Obetz,… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of February 1, 2021
- February 1st, 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
2 Heath Care Worker Arrested For Allegedly Stealing COVID-19 Patient Data From Agency’s Systems And Offering It For Sale Online – January 26, 2021 Police in the Netherlands have arrested two health ministry workers for allegedly stealing COVID-19 patient data… Read More
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Insider Threat Incident Postings As Of January 18, 2021
- January 18th, 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 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 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