Case Study:
This is a true story but the names have been changed
in order to honor the privacy of our clients.
XYZ was a medical office providing medical services to
clients in San Diego for over 20 years. After the sudden
death of the CEO, the company hired a replacement, Dr.
Smith who was asked to come in and take over the responsibilities
of the CEO. Upon reviewing tax reports, Dr. Smith was
intrigued by the lack of funds in the bank accounts and
decided that she should figure out why the company seemed
to have no money. It was a Friday afternoon, and Dr. Smith
attempted to log in to the company's accounting database.
The company's network appeared to be down because the
system would not allow her to log-on. She went into her
accountant's office and found out that the company's accountant
had not shown up for work that day. She then tried to
reach the data from his computer. Dr. Smith began seeing
error messages stating that data was no longer available
or missing, and she was unable to get any further. To
no avail, Dr. Smith spent the weekend calling around trying
to locate the missing accountant. When Monday arrived
and they were still without an accountant, or any accounting
data, she called BrenTech for help. When our software
engineer showed up, he quickly determined that the passwords
for the accounting system had been changed. Our engineer
was able to break into the accounting software and discovered
that all of the accounting data had been deleted. Our
engineering team was able to find the deleted files and
recover all of the data. BrenTech's computer forensics
team went to work and discovered that the accountant fraudulently
logged large amounts of money into the accounting program.
Working with law enforcement officials, BrenTech's computer
forensic team was able to provide Dr. Smith with enough
evidence to prosecute the missing accountant who apparently
embezzled almost $100K before disappearing.
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