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Case Studies

Professional Negligence

A national government medical organisation contacted CY4OR following concerns that a member was engaged in the illegal sale of prescription only medicines. Medicines of this type can only be prescribed by a medical practitioner having evaluated the nature of each patient’s case. The organisation were naturally concerned about the risk to public health should the suspected member be trading illegally as a business.

Keylogging

A large UK Bank contacted CY4OR directly, with concerns that one of their employees had installed ‘keylogging’ software on important banking systems within one of their offices.

Internet Misuse in the Workplace

Based on initial information provided by a company’s IT Department, CY4OR were instructed to investigate the computer of an employee who they thought was accessing pornographic images, possibly of children.

Intellectual Property Theft

A UK based communications company dismissed a contractor, who had been working for the company for five years developing and maintaining a database of business/corporate customers. The contractor in question had been using a cross platform database application that was not supported by the company. During his exit interview, the contractor returned his company laptop stating that he had deleted the relevant database and that he had copied confidential company information which he was going to use to setup his own company.

Hacking

The Managing Director of the UK branch of a multi-national finance company contacted CY4OR with concerns that an unauthorised user was gaining access to the companies PC’s. The symptoms were described as frustrating, files were being deleted, programs were opening & closing and the mouse pointer moved without user intervention; the computers were unusable.

Corruption and Internet Misuse

An employee of one of the UK's largest communications companies stated that he was being dealt with unprofessionally by his manager. Whilst the company’s human resources departments were dealing with this complaint an email was uncovered with content that was sufficiently serious to necessitate a full internal investigation.

Corporate Fraud

A UK based manufacturing company had set up a subsidiary company in mainland Europe to sell its products. In time a drop in sales was noticed and it was felt that the contracted sales advisors were recommending rival products.