Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Pfizer has sued a former employee for breaching her confidentiality agreement when she allegedly downloaded thousands of the company’s files, some of which contained trade secrets and confidential information, to her personal devices and attempted to “cover her tracks.”
In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, and obtained by NBC 7 San Diego, Pfizer accuses long-time employee Chun Xiao Li, the company’s associate director of statistics in its Global Product Development group, of uploading over 12,000 files, including scores of confidential documents, to a personal Google Drive account and onto other personal devices from a company-issued laptop without permission.
