Security News > 2024 > March > Australian techie jailed for accessing museum's accounting system and buying himself stuff
An Australian IT contractor has been sentenced to 30 months jail for ripping off the National Maritime Museum.
The nonprofit museum celebrates Australia's maritime heritage - a matter of some import for the island nation, which therefore attracts government funding.
As explained yesterday by the Australian Federal Police, the man "Used his role as a contract IT support worker to access the Museum's accounts payable system and illegally change bank account details to his own."
The convicted techie used his access to the Museum's financial systems to obtain financial details of several individuals and businesses recorded.
The Museum noticed the man's transactions and called the Feds, who put the Command Cybercrime Operations team on the case, leading to a March 2023 arrest.
The man may not be the only Australian tech contractor in trouble this week: local infosec outfit Dvuln trawled LinkedIn for workers known to hold Australian government security clearances, and found two scary things.