Rogue TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Data to Tech Support Scammers

    Rogue TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Data to Tech Support Scammers

    Rogue TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Data to Tech Support Scammers


    Last Updated: 14 Nov 2019 at 10:23

    Do you always feel uncomfortable trusting companies with your data? If so, you're not alone.

    While companies do much to protect themselves from external threats, insiders always pose the highest risk to a company's data.

    Unfortunately, when we say companies can't eliminate insider threat completely, cybersecurity firms, who are meant to protect others, are not an exception.

    Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has disclosed a security incident this week carried out by an employee who improperly accessed the personal data of thousands of its customers with a "clear criminal intent" and then sold it to a malicious third-party tech support scammers earlier this year.


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    Golden's Avatar Posted By: Golden
    14 Nov 2019


 

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