CASE STUDY 9: FAMILY MEMBERS BOLT

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Family members bolt, take the IT department, the product design; sabotage the originals, and go into competition. A family-owned product manufacturer and designer on the verge of being bought for many millions of dollars found most of its designs missing after the departure of key managers and designers. A program used for deep file destruction had been implemented to destroy both product designs and evidence of the procedure itself. An outside computer forensics consultant is brought in to recover designs and overwrites evidence instead. A computer forensics team is then brought in and discovers remnants of file destruction utility, and data patterns consistent with sabotage by the same utility. The suspects finally admitted to the use of the utility.

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