Intel Files Suit Over Ex-Employee Who Allegedly Walked Away With Confidential Xeon Files

An ex-employee of Intel allegedly walked away with 3,900 documents pertaining to confidential data from the company. Intel has filed a lawsuit and wants $75,000 as payment for potential damage from the stolen documents.

The former employee in question is Dr. Varun Gupta, who left Intel last year to join Microsoft as a "Principal for Strategic Planning in Cloud and AI." On his last day working for Intel, Dr. Gupta is alleged to have grabbed nearly 4,000 confidential files and stashed them on a couple of USB drives. The data pertains to Intel's Xeon processors, pricing data, strategies, and Intel's manufacturing capabilities of the chips.

Aaron Klotz
Contributing Writer

Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.