by Piers Shearman | Apr 27, 2021 | Insider Threat
What happened? An engineer who worked for Coca Cola and other manufacturers is alleged to have stolen valuable trade secrets in order to set up her own company in China using the stolen technology. Xiarong You has been accused of insider theft and economic espionage... 
by Lisa Forte | Mar 25, 2021 | Insider Threat
Tesla Insider Threat Case Study According to the official Filing, Tesla is suing a former employee and software engineer named Alex Khatilov alleging trade secret theft and breach of contract. What actually happened? Khatilov was hired by Tesla in to work on... 
by Piers Shearman | Jun 1, 2020 | Insider Threat
What happened? Disgruntled former IT admin Charles E. Taylor quit his job at an unnamed Atlanta based distribution company before going on a sabotage spree costing the company $800,000 USD to redress. Taylors “multi-stage sabotage campaign” involved... 
by Red Goat | Feb 4, 2020 | Insider Threat
Of the three categories of insider threat; theft, fraud and sabotage, fraud is often the most complex, inventive and difficult to detect. This case however, has a certain simplicity to it. The case concerns a Mr Kabbaj who worked for an “unnamed global internet... 
by Red Goat | Jan 9, 2020 | Insider Threat
What happened? Ring, the Amazon owned home-security company, has admitted firing four employees who accessed users’ videos. The employees had access to the video feeds but exceeded their authorised access by viewing them. This has undoubtedly caused embarrassment for... 
by Red Goat | Dec 20, 2019 | Insider Threat
Friday the 13th is a day that has been long associated with bad omens. This became a reality for almost 30,000 Facebook staff though on Friday the 13th of December. Almost 30,000 employee payroll records were stolen. The theft left information security professionals... 