Business Espionage in Tasmania?
Tasmania, Australia – An overnight break-in in which burglars ransacked Aurora Energy’s Hobart head office has puzzled police and company chiefs.
Only the second-floor commercial section of Aurora was targeted by the thieves, who cracked a secret safe and stole a small sum of cash.
Computers were accessed and documents strewn across the office…
Police have not ruled out corporate espionage as a possible reason for the break-in, which occurred either late on Monday night or in the early hours of yesterday…
Professor John McFarlane, from the Australian National University’s Centre for Excellence in Policing and Security, said yesterday industrial espionage was not uncommon in the business world. “There have been very few prosecutions in Australia for this sort of activity, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening,” Prof McFarlane said. (more)
By on 07/10/2010
