Put this one in the category of “smoking gun e-mails.” Prosecutors allege that, in 2006, Atul Malhotra, a former IBM exec, sent an email to a Hewlett-Packard VP with the subject heading “for your eyes only.” Attached was a file containing IBM trade secrets. Two days later, Malhotra, 42, sent a similar email to another [...]

A federal jury convicted a former Coca-Cola secretary Friday of conspiring to steal trade secrets from the world's largest beverage maker in an effort to sell them to rival Pepsi.

Secretary could get 10 years in prison for alleged theft of trade secrets.

The two men accused of plotting with a secretary at Coca-Cola Co. to steal trade secrets from the world's biggest soft drink maker and trying to sell them to archrival PepsiCo Inc. each pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy.