You are watching the news and learn that there has been a security breach of credit card information at a large department store. The news report also states that the same company has had recent layoffs. The report says that the company is looking into whether or not the breach was done by an insider. Why would the company investigate the possibility of the breach being from an insider?

INSIDERS CREATE THREATS AT THEIR WORKPLACE AFTER WORK PLACE INCIDENTS

Explanation:

Workplace incidents create a conducive opportunity for insiders to commit crime.

In this case there have been some layoffs which can be exploited in certain ways.

It could be that an employee or employees who think they will be laid off decide to steal credit card information for financial reasons before they are laid off.

It could also be that employees or an employee who will not be laid off could use the opportunity to steal information so that it can be blamed on the employees to be laid off seeing as they will be the most likely suspects.

Workplace incidents create an opportunity to steal information and this is no different.