The following threats to the newly introduced pseudonymization method have been identified: Database theft System or hardware theft Social engineering Malicious service use Malicious insiders Database theft has no negative impact, because any deterministic mapping information is secured by the secret key of the pseudonymization service provider.
They'll profit from this in a big way, especially with the size of this database," the insider – known only as 'Vinnie' – claimed.
Using information from the Thomson Financial Insider Filing database of insider transactions reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the two men examined 39,888 stock option grants to top executives at 7,774 companies dated from Jan . 1 , 1996o Dec. 1, 2005.
"We're in the information database age, and insider theft has turned toward the theft of information, and specifically personal information, because with an assumed identity criminals can purchase goods and services at will using someone else's credit," said Judith Collins, an associate professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University and an expert on identity theft.
5- SEC data breach: Finally, in a fit of irony, the agency responsible for regulating cryptocurrencies was itself a victim of a data breach when hackers were able to access sensitive data on the EDGAR database to conduct insider trading.
insiders with access to the database trading on their own exchange — Bitfinex officers trade on the exchange themselves.
"All cybercrime is an inside job," he said, because the criminals are able to penetrate a database from the outside and act as an insider in gaining access to data, which is what occurred in the Anthem breach.
Even though this model of access control ensures authorized access, it leaves the database vulnerable to attacks from malicious insiders, which, according to a report by McAfee [10], poses a considerable threat.
Stolen information, which is often supplied through insider theft by company employees with access to records databases, can be bought and sold on illegal Web sites.
