Employee fired, charged with bringing former employer’s confidential information with him
July 2, 2008
An executive asks and is given for confidential sales information, marked as “confidential” and with a request not to distribute it. Not long afterwards, he quits and takes a similar position with a competitor of his former employer. Shortly after that, on his own initiative, he gives the confidential information to his new employer. That gets him fired by his new company, and then charged with criminal theft of trade secrets by the U.S. Attorney’s office.
In a nutshell, that’s what allegedly happened with Atul Malhotra, who has been indicted for giving IBM confidential information to HP. See the write-up in Wired magazine and the charging document filed in court.
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