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Former IT employee accessed data of over 1 million US patients

Geisinger, a prominent healthcare system in Pennsylvania, has announced a data breach involving a former employee of Nuance, an IT services provider contracted by the organization.
- Bill Toulas
- June 27, 2024
- 07:17 PM
- 0
Former IT employee gets 2.5 years for wiping 180 virtual servers

A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems (NCS) was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired.
- Bill Toulas
- June 14, 2024
- 11:51 AM
- 3
Nissan North America data breach impacts over 53,000 employees

Nissan North America (Nissan) suffered a data breach last year when a threat actor targeted the company's external VPN and shut down systems to receive a ransom.
- Bill Toulas
- May 15, 2024
- 03:32 PM
- 1
Cybersecurity consultant arrested after allegedly extorting IT firm

A former cybersecurity consultant was arrested for allegedly attempting to extort a publicly traded IT company by threatening to disclose confidential and proprietary data unless they paid him $1,500,000.
- Bill Toulas
- May 02, 2024
- 09:41 AM
- 0
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Home Depot confirms third-party data breach exposed employee info

Home Depot has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after one of its SaaS vendors mistakenly exposed a small sample of limited employee data, which could potentially be used in targeted phishing attacks.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 07, 2024
- 01:40 PM
- 0
Verizon insider data breach hits over 63,000 employees

Verizon Communications is warning that an insider data breach impacts almost half its workforce, exposing sensitive employee information.
- Bill Toulas
- February 06, 2024
- 11:02 AM
- 2
Former IT manager pleads guilty to attacking high school network

Conor LaHiff, a former IT manager for a New Jersey public high school, has admitted to committing a cyberattack against his former employer following the termination of his employment in June 2023.
- Bill Toulas
- December 18, 2023
- 10:00 AM
- 2
Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos

Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company.
- Bill Toulas
- December 12, 2023
- 10:02 AM
- 2
Former employee charged for attacking water treatment plant

A former employee of Discovery Bay Water Treatment Facility in California was indicted by a federal grand jury for intentionally attempting to cause malfunction to the facility's safety and protection systems.
- Bill Toulas
- July 10, 2023
- 12:57 PM
- 5
IT employee impersonates ransomware gang to extort employer

A 28-year-old United Kingdom man from Fleetwood, Hertfordshire, has been convicted of unauthorized computer access with criminal intent and blackmailing his employer.
- Bill Toulas
- May 23, 2023
- 11:22 AM
- 5
Former Ubiquiti dev who extorted the firm gets six years in prison

Nickolas Sharp, a former senior developer of Ubiquiti, was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing company data, attempting to extort his employer, and aiding the publication of misleading news articles that severely impacted the firm's market capitalization.
- Bill Toulas
- May 11, 2023
- 10:55 AM
- 1
Hacker leaks alleged Activision employee data on cybercrime forum

A threat actor has posted data the alleged data stolen from American game publisher Activision in December 2022 on a hacking forum, highlighting the data's value for phishing operations.
- Bill Toulas
- February 27, 2023
- 12:08 PM
- 0
Fired admin cripples former employer's network using old credentials

An IT system administrator of a prominent financial company based in Hawaii, U.S., used a pair of credentials that hadn't been invalidated after he was laid off to wreak havoc on his employer.
- Bill Toulas
- September 29, 2022
- 04:45 PM
- 4
Fired NY credit union employee nukes 21GB of data in revenge

Juliana Barile, the former employee of a New York credit union, pleaded guilty to accessing the financial institution's computer systems without authorization and destroying over 21 gigabytes of data in revenge.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 01, 2021
- 11:23 AM
- 6
Phishing lures employees with fake 'back to work' internal memos

Scammers are trying to steal email credentials from employees by impersonating their organization's human resources (HR) department in phishing emails camouflaged as internal 'back to work' company memos.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 27, 2020
- 10:15 AM
- 0
Amazon sacks insiders over data leak, alerts customers

Amazon has recently dismissed multiple employees for leaking customer data including their email addresses to an unaffiliated third-party. The company has sent out an email announcement to the affected customers following the incident.
- Ax Sharma
- October 27, 2020
- 04:33 AM
- 1
Coca-Cola Suffers Breach at the Hands of Former Employee

The Coca-Cola company announced a data breach incident this week after a former employee was found in possession of worker data on a personal hard drive.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 25, 2018
- 06:45 PM
- 0
Retired Airline Manager Who Hacked Former Employer Caught Thanks to VPN Logs

An Alaska judge sentenced a 59-year-old woman, a former director at Peninsula Airlines (PenAir), for hacking her former employer and wreaking havoc for two days inside the company's flight reservations system.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 16, 2018
- 10:17 AM
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