I just finished reading a post on The Register describing an incident where an employee of Steven E. Hutchins Architects, a firm in Jacksonville, Florida, went on what was described as a "silent rampage" when she deleted seven years of drawings worth an estimated $2.5 million, from the firm's server. The full story was reported in the First Coast News and can be read here.
Apparently, the employee had come across an advertisement for a job at the firm that sounded remarkably similar to her position. Assuming she was about to be terminated, she opted for a pre-emptive strike, got into the firm after hours and spent several hours deleting the files.
The frightening part about the story is how simple it was for her to delete the files. She used her own credentials to access the server and delete the files, but it sounds as her position as an administrative assistant wouldn't have merited the "carte blanche" access to these files. Unless she was actually producing the drawings, I would normally assume she would have read-only access to the files at best.
