Ne volez pas les données de votre employeur !

My friends, good morning. I woke up this morning to a serious incident that happened to someone. So here's the problem with this person. So the guy is leaving a company because he simply found a job elsewhere. He signed. So he started leaving his company. Now what he did was he had some problems with them and having problems, he threatened them by saying, I'm going to file a complaint against you. So first of all, I can tell you something. Never threaten to file a complaint. File a complaint. Before filing a complaint, go see a lawyer. Because sometimes things can happen to you. Things can happen to you. Something happened in your company, you perceive it as an injustice. Maybe it really is an injustice. You perceive it as something illegal. Maybe it is illegal or maybe not. You don't know. But before you start threatening to file a complaint, you need to go see a lawyer or talk things over. Because sometimes there are things that are, yes, not legal or not completely correct and all that. But when you do that, when you talk to a lawyer, he'll tell you, yeah, I understand you. Yeah, that's true. It's not really correct, it's not legal, but it won't go anywhere. On that basis, you won't be able to file a complaint. Just forget about it. Okay? So don't just threaten to file a complaint. That's the first point. The second point is that once you threaten to file a complaint, you have to know that they won't even wait because they usually have lawyers with whom they have year round contracts or who are employees. So as soon as you use the word complaint or legal or court or whatever, they will immediately start holding meetings with their lawyers and prepare a case against you in return. So what they did was they started to analyze this person's work with a magnifying glass. And when they analyze it with a magnifying glass, they can find anything. For example, they can tell you, yes, for example, we analyzed your expenses with the company credit card this year or the last two years. We audited all that by an accountant or a firm. And it would seem that there are doubts about a certain number of expenses and we wonder whether they are legitimate or not. In this specific case, what they did was they used a different approach. The guy had been working for the company for years. And what he did before, as he was nearing the end, he was working his notice period. So what did he do? He started forwarding emails to his Gmail account. So he started forwarding work emails from his work account to his Gmail account. For example, his emails contained presentations, presentations that he had made himself. And he wanted to keep them. He wanted to keep them for the future as examples or reuse them by removing the company logo, things like that. He considered that he had legitimate access to this content, whereas he does not have that access by law. In reality, he does not have access to this content. This content was purchased by the company. So he does not really have the right to use it. The company considers it confidential. Right. So what he did was he started sending emails from his Outlook inbox to his Gmail inbox on a fairly large scale, of course. He ended up with a letter, a letter sent by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt, the whole thing. He was told that there would be legal repercussions because we did an analysis of his account and discovered that he had forwarded an impressive amount of content that was the company's intellectual property, that he had forwarded it to a private email address. So that's to tell you that they are now preparing too. So what are the repercussions of such a situation? It can have extremely far reaching repercussions. For example, let me give you an example. In my career, I was in a company a few years ago and we had recruited two guys from the saddles, from Sal. These guys came from a competitor. Sales guys always come from a competitor. Because if the guys are in a field, they're going to stay in the same field. If the guy is in the bakery, he's not going to go to the butcher shop afterwards, he's going to go work for another bakery company. That's all. He stays in the same field. So the guys come to our company and they notice something. They notice that the IT admin of their previous company, their previous employer, had forgotten to deactivate their access to Salesforce. And this happens quite often, unfortunately, given the IT systems that are very complicated and sprawling, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Well, when they left, some accesses were deactivated, but not others. What did they continue to do while they were with their new employer and continue to access the Salesforce and see in real time, huh? Because Salesforce is an online tool, a sort of online portal that all companies use. And the guys, the sales people fill in all their interactions with customers in real time. I give him a call and ready to pay. Time. We're going to sign next week. He wants to renew. He's interested in this solution. Everything is in there, even the sales contracts, the POs, the contracts, the payments, everything, the whole thing. So they continued to access that. And with that, they had strategic information that allowed them to approach customers who were in negotiations with their previous employers. And since they knew everything, well, they could type it correctly and they could make them more interesting technical and commercial offers. Of course it got out. And how did it get out? It didn't just get out by chance because we were looking at other people's logs. No. Their previous employer, as I told you, worked in a pretty messy way. How do you say it? That's not how it got out. It got out because a client who was approached by these two guys found it suspicious. He knew that they had changed employers and he knew that they were working for their competition. They themselves came from the competition, from a competing company, telling him, yes, you need this solution. We can offer you all that. But in the conversation he had with them, he realized that they knew too much. He realized that they had access to information that he only shared with one company. And then people came from another company and they seemed to know everything. What did he do? He sounded the alarm. He went to this company and told them, listen, these guys who worked for you a few months ago, they just talked to me, guys, they know everything. That's when something triggered. They analyzed the Salesforce logs and everything, and they found that indeed, these people's accounts continued to be used multiple times a day. And there you have it. And from there, of course, the story took on biblical proportions. What happened? The company where I was and where these people worked fired them within the hour. When they found out about it, they were fired immediately. And we got an email saying that this kind of practice is reprehensible, morally unacceptable and all that. In reality, it's not a question of morality. Companies have absolutely no morals. The idea is that it could engage the company's liability. That means that the other SaaS company could file a complaint against us saying that we hacked their system and used their data and all that and all that. And that could have resulted in damages in court to the tune of millions and millions. So that's why our company, in order to later plead good faith, decided to fire them instantly. Just to be covered later by saying, we never supported this kind of act. And as soon as we learned about it, we fired them. They no longer work for us. They are former employees. Okay, so let's go back to the case where someone, and I'm telling you this because I know that a lot of people do it, or someone copies emails by any means. They can print them. They can copy them to an external drive Whatever. Well, the risk is losing your future job. Why? Because you're going to work somewhere. The company, your former employer, can write a registered letter signed by a lawyer and everything to your new employer saying that it has come to our attention that you have recruited Mr. Intel or Mrs. Intel. And we want to let you know that this person, before leaving for us, committed a fraudulent act and stole data, data that is relevant to our intellectual property, customer lists, plans, things, all that. And that we will be very vigilant about their misuse. And that if we feel that you are using this data, we will immediately take legal action. That's what your new employer will do. Your new employer will summon you and they will say, just grab your keys and your things right now, right now, right now. Because you become a liability. A liability, as they say, legally. When they talk to their lawyer, their lawyer will tell them, no, no, uh, I can defend you if there's ever a problem, but you're going to have to fire this person right away. You fire them right away. The person has to leave right now. Now, now. No loan for life, no nothing. The person is leaving because like that, what we're saying. No, listen, we don't eat that kind of bread. All that, you know, if you feel like you're leaving, you're in the process of giving your notice. You're going to hand in your resignation. You've already handed it in. I would like to draw your attention very specifically to the fact that companies monitor everything. They have software capable of seeing everything you do on your work computer. And it sends alerts when there are anomalies. So forward emails to your Gmail inbox. Even the same email, don't do it. They see it. It triggers alerts for them. Printing emails, printing. It shows, taking screenshots. You can see that transfer. I once had a colleague, he was in big trouble because the month before he left, he plugged in. At the time, we were still allowed to do that. He plugged in an external hard drive, 2 or 2 terabytes or 4 terabytes, I don't know, a big external drive, anyway, and he plugged it into his computer's USB and he started downloading all the data that was on all the network shares and everything, and putting it on the drive that still creates an alert for them. And they knew he did that. If there is important, crucial information, I will tell you that today, the only really safe way to take it is to photograph the screen. Okay? I mean, if there is important information for you and you absolutely want to keep it with just your phone. You display the information on a big screen. You take pictures there without anyone noticing. They can never know. On the other hand, everything you do on a computer to collect data, they know. Okay? So be very careful. I wanted to let you know and the clear risk is that it could harm the rest of your career. You know me, I always side with employees but I don't want you to give your employers an easy way to attack you on a silver platter. So I'm not defending employers here. I'm not defending them in any way. Strictly speaking I'm 100% employee oriented, 0% employer oriented. However, I still want to tell you there are sometimes risks. There are sometimes situations that people put themselves in that can give employers an extremely easy way to attack. There you have it delivered on a silver platter. Thank you my friends for watching this video so far and I'll see you in the next one.