Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Data Breach (2012)

Four managers who left AMD to work for Nvidia are being sued by AMD for intellectual property theft. AMD accused the former employees of setting up a spying ring in the company before leaving to work for rivaling company Nvidia. One of the managers is accused of using two external hard drives to download Microsoft Outlook email files, licensing agreements, and strategic plans from his work computer before leaving AMD in July of 2012. Another employee is accused of taking an AMD technical work and development database with over 200 files. The four employees are accused of taking over 150,000 documents.