Rogue Employees can be part of the breach problem … hope these two emplpoyees got fired

According to an article I read from the Verge, rogue employees can be part of the breach problem. The article was written on April 7th, and was found on my twitter feed

The article is entitled California man indicted for stealing Shopify customer data and talks about a man by the name of Tassilo Heinrich, who paid Shopify employees to get him data on customers which he then he sold to two people outside the United States. According to the article, this breach affected fewer than 200 merchants and it was because of employee abuse, according to the article. A linked article said that one of the merchants involved was Kylie Jenner’s makeup company Kylie Cosmetics.

For full information on this one, please read the article. Glad in this case it was bad employees, and not a full blown breach. As a side note, these employees gave access to Google Drive via links, as well as giving images as well.

According to the article, Mr. Heinrich is charged with identity theft and conspiracy to commit wire fraud; his two co-conspirators, based in Portugal and the Philippines, were not charged.