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Corporate-espionage, e-mail break-in case zaps electronics industry
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/051409-amx-email-espionage.html
By Ellen Messmer
Network World
05/14/2009
A corporate-espionage case in which an executive from electronics
manufacturer, AMX Corp, broke into the e-mail system of the marketing
firm working for a competitor Crestron Electronics to steal sensitive
business information has rocked that industry.
David Goldenberg, a resident of Long Island and former vice president in
the New York-area office of Richardson, Texas.-based AMX Corp., pled
guilty this week in a New Jersey courtroom to felony wiretapping in
connection with illegally accessing the internal e-mail at Crestron=E2=80=99s
sales and marketing firm, Sapphire Marketing, based in Woodcliff Hills,
N.J.
As part of the plea deal with the Bergen Court Prosecutor=E2=80=99s Office,
which has spared Goldenberg from a criminal trial, the prosecutor there,
Brian Lynch, is recommending probation.
That=E2=80=99s in part because Goldenberg has been largely cooperative after
being approached by the Paramus Police Department in February 2008 after
Sapphire filed a complaint about suspicions that business e-mail
concerning AMX was being intercepted and Goldenberg had something to do
with it.
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