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The threat within: Arrests of former employees announced in two New Jersey cases

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Dissent

Jessica Mazzola reports:

An East Brunswick man was arrested Friday on charges he stole about 20,000 confidential files from his employer to open a consulting business after his retirement, federal authorities said.

Anchi Hou, 61, a retired employee of DuPont, was charged was theft of trade secrets after allegedly copying and stealing the files from the company’s Parlin manufacturing facility, acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said.

Read more on NJ.com.

Updated 5-19-2018.  This post originally contained and linked to two news reports involving alleged insider breaches.  The second case, unrelated to the one above, was dismissed entirely, and the person named asked this site to remove the coverage as it was unfairly harming reputation.  In light of the fact that he sent proof of dismissal of the case and that the original source is also removing its news coverage, DataBreaches.net has decided to remove mention of it, too.

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