Qualcomm took legal action this week against a former engineer for allegedly uploading confidential trade secrets from the company's internal network to his personal email and cloud storage accounts just prior to accepting a job with a competitor.
It is the second legal action by Qualcomm in the past three weeks against former workers accused of absconding with secret information on their way to other jobs.
In both cases filed in San Diego federal court, the company said it doesn't know the extent to which its confidential information might have been passed on to others. It is asking the court to authorize inspections of the ex-employees' computers, email accounts, personal storage drives and cloud-based storage accounts to pinpoint what was taken and where it was transferred. It is also seeking an injunction and unspecified damages.
