Former Exec At Mega-Technology Company Indicted For Emailing Secret IBM Pricing.

Former Hewlett-Packard vice president Atul Malhotra has been indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly passing a confidential email from his previous employer, IBM Corp., to senior H-P executives. According to an indictment filed June 27 in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., Atul Malhotra was the director of sales and business development for IBM’s printing-services division in March of 2006.  That’s when he requested confidential pricing information about IBM services. Mr. Malhotra became a vice president of H-P’s printing division in May of that same year.

That July, the indictment alleges, he “sent an e-mail to an H-P senior vice president with the subject ‘for your eyes only’” with an attachment including the confidential information. He allegedly followed it up with a similar email to a second senior vice president.