CASE STUDY 12: MANAGERS START NEW COMPANY

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Managers start a new company in the very offices of their employers; computers and back-ups disappear. A foreign branch of the entertainment arm of a multinational conglomerate suspect that key managers had been attempting to incorporate company intellectual assets into a competing product line. Once the suspects believed they were under suspicion, the relevant office computers were reported as stolen. Data back-ups were reported as missing. Under pressure, the original computers were found and produced by a computer expert among the suspect group, but with large amounts of data missing. A computer forensics team was hired to investigate. Unequivocal evidence of illegal activities was produced from the remains of files on the computers in question.

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