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Cyber Theft (1)
John is the owner of a small consulting business. Last night some important documents were stolen from John's office. They were locked up in a safe and the only way to open the safe was with the 8 digits access code.
Whoever got into the safe must have that code. so now he is trying to figure out who has gotten it.
Only two people in the company were authorized to have the code. To improve security, John changed the code every month. He had the code of course, and so did his assistant Sylvia. As far as he knew, no body else had it or had ever asked to use it to get something from the safe.
There was no reason for Sylvia to take the documents, so he couldn't imagine that it was her.
That would't make sense, and she was completely trustworthy.
besides she was on a business trip and would't be back for several more days.
So someone else must have had the code and stolen the documents. If so, who was it?
How did they get the code?
one possibility was that the code was written down somewhere, maybe in the notebook.Sylvia was famous for writing things down. She had ... bad memory so she kept a lot of notes. maybe she wasn't careful and someone looked through her note and discovered the code.
But Sylvia wasn't that careless or irresponsible. She wouldn't never have written the code down on a piece of paper. So that could't be the answer.
Cyber Theft (2)
Another possibility is that somebody hacked into her computer. she had probably stored the code somewhere on her computer and the thief was able to get it from there. But who could it have been?
Suddenly he realized that there was a new IT guy in the office. He maintained the company's computer network and provided technical support for the staff. Perhaps he was the guilty one. If anyone could have done it, he certainly has the skills.He was the security expert and he had helped Sylvia install something on her computer last week.
Then John realizes that no body had done a proper background check on the guy. One of the other engineer on the company had recommended him and he seemed nice. They had been in a hurry to hire someone for the position so they didn't check his background very carefully. Suddenly he had a bad feeling. Immediately he used his smartphone to check the company's bank accounts.
To his horror, he found a large amount of money was missing from one of the accounts. There have been a large withdraw early that morning, more than 75 thousands dollars. He then discovered that the money had been wired to an account in another country. So not only the IT guy got the access code for the safe, but he also got the login information for the bank. This was a disaster.
John immediately called the police and reported the incident. He also called the bank to see if they could stop the transaction. Unfortunately they said it was too late. The transaction had gone through.
Just then John got an email with the subject line From the IT guy. It shows the smiley face and said Thank you for being so stupid. Don't waste your time trying to find me. I've left the country and will never return. Be thankful that I didn't take everything in the account.This should be a good lesson for you. It was signed Your IT guy.
