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Sherry Chen (NOAA hydrologist — charges dropped)INS-CHEN-NOAA-2014 insider
🇺🇸 US
aka Xiafen Chen, Sherry Chen
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0attributed CVEs
0ATT&CK techniques
0.0IDF score (tooling uniqueness)
0exclusive CVEs
—years active
About this actor
US-citizen NOAA hydrologist arrested in 2014 on charges related to allegedly improperly accessing a federal dams database; the Department of Justice dropped all charges in March 2015 without explanation. She was nonetheless fired in 2016; she ultimately reached a $1.8M settlement with the US government in 2022.
How we know this
- Data origin
- Curated overlay Insider-threat entry synthesised from public reporting and court filings — not a MITRE-tracked intrusion set.
- Techniques
- No ATT&CK techniques mapped.
- Named victims
- 1 extracted from reporting.
Thin data: No ATT&CK techniques are mapped yet — the behavioural profile is empty. Only one named victim is on file.
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Activity timeline
No activity events recorded.
Profile
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No techniques attributed.
Co-occurring actors
None.