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The employee who sent company data to a personal email account

We mentioned earlier that employees often times email company data to themselves to work over the weekend. But, in this incident, an employee at Boeing

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Security officer who was fined $316,000 for stealing data

In 2017, a California court found ex-security officer Yovan Garcia guilty of hacking his ex-employer’s systems to steal its data, destroy its servers, deface its

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The employee who accidentally misconfigured access privileges

NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app details were leaked after documents hosted in Google Drive were left open for anyone with a link to view. Worse still,

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The employee who accidentally sent an email to the wrong person

Misdirected emails happen more than most think. In fact, Tessian platform data shows that at least 800 misdirected emails are sent every year in organizations with

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The ex-employee who offered 100 GB of company data for $4,000

Police in Ukraine reported in 2018 that a man had attempted to sell 100 GB of customer data to his ex-employer’s competitors—for the bargain price

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The employee offered a bribe by a Russian national

In September 2020, a Nevada court charged Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov with conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer. The court alleges

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The employees leaking customer data

Toward the end of October 2020, an unknown number of Amazon customers received an email stating that their email address had been “disclosed by an

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The employee who stole a hard drive containing HR data

Coca-Cola was forced to issue data breach notification letters to around 8,000 employees after a worker stole a hard drive containing human resources records. Why

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The employee who took company data to a new employer for a competitive edge

This incident involves two of the biggest tech players: Google and Uber. In 2015, a lead engineer at Waymo, Google’s self-driving car project, left the

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