If you're going to demote or terminate your in-house tech
expert, you should plan that event very carefully.
Our firm is now helping a client with damage control and data
recovery upon discovering – a week after their former Chief
Technology Officer (CTO) had resigned but six months
after he'd been demoted to a lesser role -- that
the CTO had created a back door for himself to the client's
servers and had spent those last six months of his employment
accessing, downloading and storing emails of the client's top
executives, and its most important vendors. These stolen emails
contain personal financial information, such as bank account
numbers, personal health information, bank routing information for
personal accounts of the client's top executives, including the
CEO and two board members. The former CTO also had accessed and
downloaded other proprietary corporate information, including bank
routing numbers for several of the client's most important
vendors, and other
