Information Security News: Akamai employee tried to sell secrets to Israel

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219628/Akamai_employee_tried_to_sell_secrets_to_Israel

By Robert McMillan
IDG News Service
August 30, 2011

A 43-year-old former Akamai employee has pleaded guilty to espionage charges 
after offering to hand over confidential information about the Web acceleration 
company to an agent posing as an Israeli consular official in Boston.
Starting in September 2007, Elliot Doxer played an elaborate 18-month-long game 
of cloak-and-dagger with James Cromer, a man he thought was an Israeli 
intelligence officer. He handed over pages and pages of confidential data to 
Cromer, providing a list of Akamai's clients and contracts, information about 
the company's security practices, and even a list of 1,300 Akamai employees, 
including mobile numbers, departments and e-mail addresses.
Doxer delivered the information to a dead drop box, a predetermined location 
set up by Cromer where both of them could drop off documents for each other 
without actually meeting.
His motivation was to help Israel and to get information on his son and 
estranged wife, who lived outside the U.S., prosecutors said in court filings.
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