http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/swiss-warning-intelligence-partners-about-massive-data-breach-0011219
By Carlton Purvis
securitymanagement.com
12/06/2012
It's a real life version of Office Space except with national security
implications.
Swiss intelligence is warning the U.S. and Britain that counterterrorism
information may have been leaked after a disgruntled employee stole a
large amount of sensitive data, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Last summer, Swiss authorities arrested a senior IT technician at NDB,
Switzerland's intelligence service, who is suspected of stealing the
information.
The employee was so unhappy with his job in the agency’s IT department
that he stopped showing up regularly for work. Sometime around then he
stole terabytes of classified material to sell on the black market,
authorities say.
They haven’t released the man’s name.
The eight-year NDB veteran had unrestricted access to all of the
agencies networks and “investigators now believe that in the months
before his arrest, the data theft suspect displayed warning signs that
should have been spotted by his bosses or by security officials,”
Reuters reported.
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