In Pictures: The most mortifying moments in IT security history

From Lockheed Martin and HBGary Federal to the US government and Cornell University, no one is immune to humiliating security glitches

“He was a high-level employee making a six-figure salary who had spent hours each day chatting online about incest,” – MassMutual’s chief information officer in 2003, Bruce Bonsall, describing an executive’s dark obsession and how IT had to investigate it, leading to the executive’s termination—and his divorce.

Credit: Reuters

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