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Insider Threats
Attacks originating from employees, contractors, or partners with legitimate access to systems.
12 case studies
Insider Threats
2023medium
Samsung Employees Upload Sensitive Code to ChatGPT: Confidential Data Exits the Company
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2021critical
Ubiquiti Insider Whistleblower: The Breach Was Worse Than the Company Admitted
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2021high
Verkada Security Camera Breach: Insider Sells Access to Hacker, Tesla and Cloudflare Exposed
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2019critical
Twitter's Saudi Government Spy: Two Employees on State Payroll in Twitter's SF Office
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2019high
GE Aviation IP Theft: Engineer Emails 8,000 Files to Personal Account Before Joining Competitor
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2018high
Tesla IP Theft: Engineer Emails 26,000 Confidential Files Before Joining Competitor
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2018high
Cambridge Analytica: 87 Million Facebook Profiles and a Quiz App
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2018high
Cisco Insider: Former Employee Deletes 16,000 WebEx Accounts Post-Resignation
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2015high
Morgan Stanley Financial Advisor Steals 730,000 Client Records
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2013critical
Edward Snowden and the NSA: The Insider Who Changed the World
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2010critical
Chelsea Manning: 750,000 Military Documents and Diplomatic Cables Released to WikiLeaks
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2008high
CERN Logic Bomb: IT Worker Plants Malware Set to Activate After Resignation
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Defend against insider threats
Practical guides drawn directly from these incidents.