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When rogue IT staffers attack

Eight companies that got burned by the IT guy

By Thomas Wailgum | CIO US
Published: 16:45 GMT, 15 October 09

Many call them rogue IT staffers, others might consider them IT heroes, and some are still innocent until proven guilty. But whatever the name or intention, these tech-savvy employees wreaked havoc at their organisations - and paid a price.

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To catch a spy

The FBI's Robert Hanssen became an "IT guy" at the latter part of his 25-year career, when the FBI suspected his espionage activities with the Soviet Union and, later, Russia. Hanssen became a supervisor of computer security, and it was ultimately his Palm PDA, where he stored classified documents, that allowed FBI agents to catch him. Like other IT people who go rogue, the FBI said this about Hanssen: "The trusted insider betrayed his trust without detection." Hanssen is now in jail, serving his sentence: life in prison without parole.

venthara via flickr (top); IDG News Service (left); FBI

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