(If, on the other hand, a Thomson Reuters employee stole the data and sold it to someone who traded on it, that would probably be insider trading).
*A health insurance plan's former employee stole personal information on 15 people insured by his employer and offered it for sale at $1,000 per person.
A Morgan Stanley employee stole the account numbers of 900 wealth-management clients in what sources believe was an attempt to sell the information to the highest bidder.
Recently a disgruntled employee stole instant-lottery games from her employer, a local grocery store, and a few of those tickets were winners.
DealBook » Citadel Says Trading Programs Were Stolen | Citadel, the Chicago hedge fund run by Kenneth C. Griffin, said in a court petition that at least one former employee stole trading algorithms and brought them to another firm, Jump Trading, Reuters reports.
The unidentified employee stole partial information of 350,000 clients, including names, telephone numbers, states of residence and some financial transaction data, according to a source familiar with the theft.
When I was responsible for several unionized printing businesses, we caught an employee stealing ink at one, which was named Arts & Crafts Press.
Tesla says its former employee stole company secrets and poached employees – though it was pretty unsuccessful at the last bit, as only two employees ended up going over to the new co., which works on autonomous driving software systems.
Waymo is in the midst of a contentious lawsuit against Uber, in which it claims Anthony Levandowski, a former Google employee, stole confidential material and used it to jumpstart Uber's self-driving program.
When Waymo sued Uber earlier this year, claiming that its former employee stole 14,000 documents containing trade secrets about its self-driving car project and took the documents to Uber, it was a stain on Uber's reputation.
