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

“It’s a reminder that the best security systems are not immune to rogue employees,” – Renz Nichols, president of Certegy Check Services, a subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services, in 2007, about how a former senior-level database administrator stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit-card, bank account and other personal information.

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