This story of a married couple indicted for industrial espionage in Israel is pretty scary. An excerpt:
The Israeli government alleges in the indictment that, back in the year 2000, the Haephratis began developing a malicious piece of software designed to collect information from computer systems.
While Michael Haephrati refined the software to meet individual client specifications, his wife Ruth marketed the service and maintained business relationships with several private investigators that bought the Trojan. The PIs allegedly installed the spyware, at the request of clients, on the computers of as many as 80 of those clients' rivals.
Published reports indicate that the Trojan enabled the PIs to view confidential information in real time as it was accessed on the infected systems. The purloined files included word documents, spreadsheets, e-mail messages, as well account passwords and usernames.
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