insider threat

Everything Firewall Chronicle has reported about insider threat: 2 stories, newest first. Part of our Data Breaches coverage.

Data Breaches

Infrastructure Engineer Jailed for Wiping Admin Accounts and Demanding 20 BTC Ransom

A former infrastructure engineer was sentenced to prison for deleting admin accounts and demanding 20 bitcoin to restore access to an industrial firm's servers.

Oct 11, 2026

Data Breaches

Employee Data Breach Myths: Why Insider Threat Models Fail

Most insider data leaks are not malicious acts but structural failures in access control and monitoring that standard policies ignore.

Oct 9, 2026