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Engineer Indicted for Stealing Trade Secrets and Computer Fraud
An engineer and product development manager for a Silicon Valley company was charged by a federal grand jury with three counts of computer fraud and six counts of violating U.S. trade secret laws for the unauthorized downloading of files from a customer's network, according to the DOJ. The engineer was reportedly given controlled access to the customer's network pursuant to a non-disclosure agreement and other restrictions. After the engineer was offered employment at another firm, he allegedly downloaded dozens of sensitive files containing proprietary and trade secret information about his customer's products. He subsequently loaded the confidential data onto a laptop provided by his new employer and emailed certain trade secret information to others, according to the indictment. If convicted, he faces up to 5 years' imprisonment for each computer fraud count, and 10 years for each trade secret count. (Case No. 05-00812, N.D.Ca.)
Former Executive of Biotechnology Firm Convicted of Trade Secret Theft
An executive of a biotechnology firm in California pled guilty
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