So the court said Matthew Neumann and Nicholas Tides were properly fired in 2008 for violating company policy of disclosing company information to the media, in this case the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, without company authorization.
In 2007, the PI wrote: “Boeing and its external auditors have rated the company’s inability to patch database and software development security holes as a ’significant deficiency’ with the computer infrastructure since 2004 — the first year it had to comply with the 2002 law. The failure has been deemed serious enough that for three years in a row, finance teams have spent the last 45 days of each year testing whether financial numbers are correct.
from Wired.
Boeing security