Abstract
In 2000, a former employee at Hunter Watertech went rogue and caused a spill of 800,000 liters of sewage. He leveraged his insider knowledge and access to stolen equipment in order to seek retribution for the company that wronged him. After three months of torment police arrested him and an investigation and many studies were done on the incident. A consensus remains that much of this chaos was preventable with simple cybersecurity implementations.
Faculty Advisor/Mentor
Malik Gladden
Document Type
Paper
Disciplines
Cybersecurity
DOI
10.25776/ejba-4097
Publication Date
11-20-2025
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Insider Threat: A Case Study of the Maroochy Water Services Attack
In 2000, a former employee at Hunter Watertech went rogue and caused a spill of 800,000 liters of sewage. He leveraged his insider knowledge and access to stolen equipment in order to seek retribution for the company that wronged him. After three months of torment police arrested him and an investigation and many studies were done on the incident. A consensus remains that much of this chaos was preventable with simple cybersecurity implementations.