By Aled Herbert, 22 January 2002 15:19
NEWS The FBI has cracked an industrial espionage case with the help of a sales vice president at a US networking company. Andrew Parsons, sales VP at Vector Networks, received an email from a disgruntled employee of a rival company offering him its complete customer database for $20,000. After alerting the rival company's CEO, Parsons agreed to go undercover with the FBI after it emerged the company was already involved in a legal fight over theft of confidential information. Parsons was given a wire tap and sent to meet the dodgy database dealer in a hotel room in Florida. The perpetrator and his accomplice fell for the sting and were arrested. The FBI branded Parsons a "hero". And who said networking was boring?
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