Trusted Access: Smuggled Secrets, SD Cards and Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Some insider threats are quiet and compulsive. Others come wrapped in a peanut butter sandwich. In 2021, U.S. Navy engineer Jonathan Toebbe was arrested for attempting to sell classified submarine technology to a foreign government. He wasn’t forced into it. He wasn’t coerced. He initiated the contact himself, asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency in exchange for nuclear secrets. This wasn’t a data dump or a careless mistake. It was premeditated.