The $1.4 million dollar DBA

This is one of my favorite stories.  The president of a client company hired a DBA consultant he met through a friend.  He was supposed to come in and get things "cleaned up".  After 6 weeks, he resigned fairly abruptly and went home.  To Greece.  Two months later we discovered he updated data in the accounts payable system and had $1.4 million transferred to an account he had in London.  From there it was dispersed into accounts all over the world.  In the end, they somehow got all but $250,000 back, which obviously means this was not an intelligent thief.

And they chose not to prosecute him, because they didn't want the bad publicity that could happen.  They were a semiconductor company that specialized in security...

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