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Biz Buzz: Some departing workers take trade secrets with them

By: Venuri Siriwardane

Sensitive corporate data are walking right out the door with disgruntled former employees.

More than half of workers who lost or left a job in 2008 said they stole confidential company data, according to a recent survey by Symantec, a data security firm, and the Poneman Institute, which polled nearly 1,000 adults who lost their job last year. Records taken include e-mail lists, employee records and customer contact information.

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