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India: City BPO accused of data theft
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 00:58:08 +0000 (UTC)
(note: according to Wikipedia, a crore is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to 10 million. not exactly sure what type of data was supposedly taken/stolen/compromised) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ahmedabad/City_BPO_accused_of_data_theft/articleshow/3081539.cms AHMEDABAD: It could well be one of the biggest data thefts in the country. An Ahmedabad-based BPO owner, Maulik Dave, has been accused of data theft from a Florida-based company and selling them to its rival companies in the US. Dave stole data worth Rs 1 crore from the company. With the help of his accomplice based in the US, Milan Dabhi, he sold the data to competitors of the company in the US. The nondescript office of Business Bee Solutions along the SG Road, a BPO working in the IT sector, has been closed for three months soon after Florida-based Company Noble Ventures Inc. cancelled their contract with Dave. He then shifted his operations to his home in Vejalpur. Dave had got a contract for two years for designing and maintenance of the website of Noble Ventures Inc. This company provides customer database of 1.25 crore US citizens to various marketing companies in the US and also has a client-base in other international markets. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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