Documented cases attributed to corporate / competitive intelligence threat actors, sourced and fact-checked.
Advance Machine Company's West Coast sales manager repeatedly rifled Tennant Company's sealed, covered dumpster in California to steal sales leads.
ConfirmedP&G-hired competitive-intelligence contractors retrieved roughly 80 unshredded confidential Unilever hair-care documents from the trash before P&G.
ConfirmedTo unmask a boardroom leaker, HP's leak investigators and their hired data brokers impersonated directors and journalists to trick phone carriers.
ConfirmedDow Chemical and Sasol paid PR firms who subcontracted a private intelligence firm to run over 120 dumpster-diving raids on Greenpeace's DC offices.
ConfirmedAir Canada admitted in a sworn Ontario Superior Court affidavit that it hired private investigators who twice took trash from outside WestJet co-founder.
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