Cybercrime Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers. Kevin TownsendOctober 10, 2026
Cybercrime CrowdStrike Insider Helped Hackers Falsely Claim System Breach The company has confirmed that it terminated an insider who shared screenshots of his computer with cybercriminals. Ionut ArghireNovember 24, 2025
Data Breaches 689,000 Affected by Insider Breach at FinWise Bank A former FinWise employee gained access to American First Finance customer information. Eduard KovacsSeptember 15, 2025
Cybercrime Developer Convicted for Hacking Former Employer’s Systems Davis Lu was convicted of sabotaging his employer’s systems through malicious code, and deleting encrypted data. Ionut ArghireMarch 10, 2025
Data Breaches Tesla Discloses Data Breach Related to Whistleblower Leak Tesla has disclosed a data breach impacting 75,000 people, but it’s a result of a whistleblower leak, not a malicious cyberattack. Eduard KovacsAugust 21, 2023