Computershare confirmed today that a former employee took confidential company data upon her departure from the company, but not shareholder data as was originally suspected. The company had filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts to recover IT devices containing potentially sensitive information that former employee Kathyann Pace had taken when she left the company. Pace reportedly claimed to have lost the USB drives on which she had copied the data onto her laptop and USB drive. Pace, who ironically was a risk management auditor for the firm, reportedly held onto her company-owned laptop for several weeks after leaving.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/risk-management-pro-walked-off-with-company-data