The estimate is that just one Bank of America employee who stolepersonally identifiable customer information has cost theinstitution $10million in losses it has had to cover.

That crook was arrested, but the question on many lips is howmany more insiders are looting credit unions and banks by pilferingdata, not cash, but information?

“Management at many institutions is focused on the threats posedby outside hackers. They are not looking at insider threats,” saidAlan Brill, a senior executive at security firm Kroll. “But we don'tthink the insider problem has ever gone away.”

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