When Trust Turns Toxic in Workplaces and the Hidden Risks of Co-Workers and Ex-Employees

Interesting Tech Fact:

In the early 1980s, one of the first documented cases of an insider cyber threat shook the U.S. nuclear research community when a disgruntled Los Alamos National Laboratory employee exploited his system access to smuggle classified nuclear weapons data onto personal storage media. At the time, cybersecurity as a formal discipline barely existed, and organizations had not yet realized how dangerous insider knowledge could be when mixed with resentment or greed. This rare but pivotal incident highlighted that the greatest risks often do not come from faceless outsiders but from trusted individuals within, shaping modern security practices that emphasize access control, monitoring, and zero trust models.