Several Private Investigation firms in Israel were found to have tricked their targets into installing custom Trojan software which then stole documents and exported them to servers in Germany and the UK. They were using a service developed by Michael Haephrati.

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"The more important topic is that someone stole our financial documents from our private bank and is trying to destabilise the Swiss central bank, " said Mrs Hildebrand in her statement.

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Kamm gave the documents she stole to Haaretz reporter Uri Blau, who began publishing them in November 2008.

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He was later indicted in an incident in which he allegedly stole millions of online documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Swartz, 26, faced allegations that he stole millions of online documents -- mostly scholarly papers -- from MIT through the university's computer network.

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His family has issued a statement saying that federal charges filed over allegations that he stole millions of online documents contributed to Swartz's decision to take his own life.

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Warwick, a federal prosecutor, got involved because some of the documents Landau and Savedoff stole were from the Roosevelt presidential library in Hyde Park, N.

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In the most infamous episode, somebody stole thousands of e-mails and documents from leading climate researchers, including me.

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Prosecutors said she stole more than 1, 000 confidential Motorola documents.

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