INSIDER THREAT INCIDENTS REPORT FOR DECEMBER 2025
Produced By:
National Insider Threat Special Interest Group (NITSIG)
Insider Threat Defense Group (ITDG)
Contact Information
Jim Henderson, CISSP, CCISO
Founder / Chairman Of The NITSIG
Insider Threat Researcher / Speaker
FBI InfraGard Member
[email protected]
www.nationalinsiderthreatsig.org
561-809-6800
West Palm Beach, Florida, January 6, 2025 – The monthly reports published by the NITSIG and ITDG provide clear and indisputable evidence of how very costly and damaging Insider Threat incidents can be to organizations of all types and sizes.
Sitting behind the organizations firewall is a very serious risk that is often overlooked or downplayed. It’s automated capablities (Human Operating System / Brain) can have severe inpacts to an organization if left unmonitored, or if the behavioral indicators are downplayed or ignored. Sometimes when a employee believes it has been wronged or treated unfairly, is when the brain may go into malicious mode. The damages to an orgaization as referened below and in this report can be very devestating and eye opening to an organization.
The survivability of an organization that encounters the malicious actions of an employee, could be in serious jeopardy. The financial impacts from malicous employees actions are into the MILLIONS to BILLIONS. Some companies have had large layoffs of gone out of business.
If your looking to gain additional support from upper management and other key stakeholders in your organization to develop or enhance an Insider Risk Management Program, these monthly reports are very informative and a great educational tool for discussions with the CEO and Insider Risk Management Program Working Group Members.
EXAMPLES FROM REPORT / (STP = Sentenced To Prison)
* Man STP For Role In Fraudulent Scheme That Assisted Foreign IT Workers (Posing As U.S. Citizens) With Obtaining Remote IT Positions With U.S. Companies
* 2 U.S Government Contractors Arrested For Conspiring To Destroy Government Databases After Termination
* USDA Employee STP For Role In $66 Million+ Food Stamp Fraud And Bribery Scheme
* U.S. Postal Deliveryman And 2 Others Charged With Drug Trafficking Through The U.S. Mail and Bribery
* U.S. Postal Service Employee Pleads Guilty To Receiving $1.5 Million In Bribes For Contracts
* U.S. Postal Service Employee STP For Role In Stealing $660,000 Worth Of Checks & Credit Cards From Mail / Used Funds For Luxury Lifestyle
* U.S. Postal Service Employee STP For Role In Stealing $285,000+ Of Checks – Debit Cards From Mail / Used Funds For Personal Reasons
* United States Geological Survey Employee STP For Misusing Government Charge Card For $1.1 Million+ In Charges Over 15 Year Span
* Department Of Energy Engineer Settles Claims Of Secretly Working Air Force Contractor Jobs & Collecting $165,000+
* South Korean Company Data Breach Caused By Employee Exposed Information On 34 Million Users / Company Will Compensate $1.1 BILLION To Affected Users
* 10 Former Samsung Employees Arrested For Stealing Trade Secrets And Providing To China Company
* Company Chief Financial Officer Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $4.5 Million / Used Funds To Pay Credit Cards, Downpayment For Vacation Property, Etc.
* Finance Manger For Charity STP For Embezzling $1.6 Million+ / Used Funds For Air Travel, Condo, Etc.
* Employee Of Oil & Gas Trading Company STP For $1 Million International Bribery And Money Laundering Scheme
* Restaurant Chain District Manager STP For Stealing $685,000 By Manipulating Employer’s Payroll
* Engineering Manager STP For Embezzling $500,000
* Bank Branch Manager Convicted Of Embezzling $655,000 / Deposited Funds Into Her Bank Accounts
* Bank Vice President STP For $590,000+ Loan Fraud Scheme / Used Funds For Luxury Lifestyle
* Credit Union Customer Service Emloyee STP For Stealing $345,000+ From Credit Union Customers
* Truist Bank Employee STP For Stealing $200,000 From 70 Customer Accounts / Used Funds For Clothing, Travel, Etc
* Union President Arrested For Stealing $290,000+ After He Was Voted Out Of Office / Used Funds Travel & Renovating A Property
* University Assistant Professor STP For Embezzling $412,000+
* And Many More..
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