I have heard of an incident (this may be total fiction, I don’t know) of a network admin who had permissions to some specific folders/files on the company’s network. Others had access too. Corporate data from these folders was leaked – apparently with detrimental consequences. After an investigation by the FBI, the admin had criminal charges pending against him solely because he had access to the files.
Has anyone heard any stories like this? The person I heard it from stated that the admin was a personal friend of his, so there weren’t a whole lot of layers between the person and the source of the story. Is this just an Urban Legend designed to scare folks in the IT industry? It sure has scared me!
