Endpoint management vendor Unicon is taking legal action against fellow IGEL Technology over an allegation that former employees leaked company data.
Unicon CEO Philipp Benkler said customers, business partners and employee trust was a key priority for Unicon.
“We feel compelled to exhaust all legal options against IGEL Technology and some of its executives after we learned that strictly confidential trade secrets were extensively and systematically stolen from us.”
At the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, several employees as well as Unicon’s former managing director had left to join its direct competitor IGEL Technology.
Unicon claims this is when there were first indications that confidential company information had been leaked to IGEL Technology.
The group added its suspicion was further substantiated in the following weeks. In February 2021, Unicon filed criminal charges against its former managing director.
In February 2022, Unicon filed criminal charges against IGEL Technology.
In the meantime, numerous injunctions have been issued by several courts against Unicon’s former managing director as well as against IGEL Technology.
