The number of High Court cases relating to the theft of confidential information rose 250% between 2010 and 2012, with the majority of victims being SMEs and the majority of perpetrators being employees who were leaving the company according to new research.
There were 167 cases focusing on the theft of confidential information in the High Court in 2012, up from 106 in 2011 and just 45 in 2010. The majority of these cases were businesses launching civil claims against former employees to prevent them from using confidential data obtained from company databases according to a report…
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