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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

FBI: ex-Intel worker tried to take trade secrets to AMD

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former Intel engineer, Biswahoman Pani, stands accused of stealing multiple confidential documents from that company.Pani voluntarily resigned from Intel on May 29, 2008, and claimed he intended to begin work with a hedge fund. Per the terms of his resignation, Pani remained with Intel (though on vacation) through June 11, but actually began work at AMD on June 2, putting him on both companies' payrolls for approximately nine days. 

... What the engineer failed to mention, however, was that he'd been negotiating with AMD since February of 2008, and actually began his employment with that company on June 2 of this year. Intel discovered Pani's dual employment after his exit interview on June 11, at which point it conducted a forensic analysis of his work-issued laptop.Based on the laptop's data logs, Pani was found to have accessed Intel's secure Anacapa database at numerous points between June 8 and June 10, and had downloaded 13 confidential documents. Prior to this, Biswahoman had only accessed Anacapa three times in his five years at Intel.

The FBI searched Pani's home on July 1, and found eight Intel documents and 19 CAD drawings, all classified as confidential, secret, or top secret. When questioned, Pani admitted to taking the files, but claimed he did so out of curiosity and a desire to help tutor his wife in her new job at the Hudson facility...

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