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Indian techie named in $1bn Intel data theft

November 20, 2008

During a search of Pani's home on July 1, FBI agents found a variety of Intel documents and design drawings, according to Russell's statement.

Akerman, the trade-secret attorney, credits Intel for conducting a swift forensic analysis of Pani's actions once its suspicions were aroused. "Most companies, somebody leaves, they take their computer back, they reimage it (wiping clean the hard drive), they don't even look for this stuff," Akerman says.

The vast majority of trade-secret theft, he says, never gets detected. Still, Intel "just happened to stumble across this," Akerman notes.

"They're just lucky." Responding to Akerman's criticism of Intel's data security, Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy says: "There's not anything we can say concerning the views of someone who has never set foot in an Intel building and knows only what is in the public record."

Image: J Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. | Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

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