The Insider Who Allegedly Stole a Bay Area Tech Startup From the Inside Out
A federal RICO complaint alleges that Joshua Paul Lintz, hired as COO of a La Jolla software staffing startup, engineered a data exfiltration operation from the inside -- downloading 2.5 million contractor records and corporate files before incorporating a competing company 33 days later. GBQ Partners subsequently acquired that company for an undisclosed sum.
By Marcus Reed