data theft

On Dec. 7 Symantec will release results of a study quantifying the demographic and psychographic profile, behaviors and motivations of typical insider data thieves. The snapshot is predictable: top suspects look just like most of the people in IT.

The FBI has arrested a 23-year-old man it accuses of being LulzSec member "Recursion," for his alleged involvement in one of many attacks on Sony in April and May.

A survey from Harris Interactive of users in the U.S., Australia and the U.K show more conscious willingness to mishandle or sell corporate data than most would suspect. For no obvious reason, Brits are way, way WAY more likely to data pirate than Yanks or Ozzies. Pwn Britania!

The Army added 22 charges to the list against Bradley Manning, arrested for the February leak of secret Iraq video and documents to WikiLeaks.

A Bank of America call center employee has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole sensitive client information and then tried to sell it for cash.

Lance Watson has done a little bit of everything -- from working on a fishing boat in the Florida Keys, to digging ditches and delivering pizzas. His job at a company installing and troubleshooting voicemail systems took him to a project in the Arctic Circle, where he went ice fishing and ate whale meat with an Inuit named Harvey. It's been a long and interesting road, to say the least. Always "the computer guy" to his friends and family, but never making a career out of it until a lucky meeting one day took him on the path to becoming an e-discovery and digital forensics expert, Lance's career goal was to have a job that gave him stories to tell - and he's got plenty.

A survey of 945 individuals who were laid off, fired or quit their jobs in the past 12 months shows that 59% admitted to stealing company data and 67% used their former company's confidential information to leverage a new job.

HP and Symantec are notifying workers of a data breach after thieves stole employee laptops from both companies.