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Boeing Employee Busted For Stealing Data
David Utter
Staff Writer
2007-07-13
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Gerald Eastman claimed his downloading and dissemination of Boeing documents over a couple of years amounted to whistle-blowing, not theft.
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Passing along those documents to reporters did not sway prosecutors in Seattle. Eastman, a former Boeing employee, has been charged with 16 counts of felony computer trespass.
The Seattle Times noted in its report that Eastman had been in touch with reporters on its staff and that of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Contact information for them had been found in a Hotmail account used by Eastman.
Neither of the reporters named wrote anything about quality control issues raised by Eastman, they said in the article. Both of their papers have run stories that contained details Eastman had obtained.
Other evidence seized by authorities showed Eastman had met with unnamed reporters, and given them information obtained from Boeing.
A lack of internal controls and monitoring allowed Eastman to obtain those documents. As Eastman had been able to transfer these sensitive files to an easily-concealed thumb drive, it seems Boeing had no effective preventative measures in place to thwart that kind of activity.
Likewise, Eastman had access to the documents in question. It also appears no regular auditing or controls of his activity took place, even though he could get to data he had not been entitled to reach per company policy.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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