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According to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, if you leave your company and then use a former co-worker’s credentials to access your former company’s computer systems, you could be a hacker.
In The Wall Street Journal Law Blog (Appeals Court: Using Shared Password to Steal Company Secrets is Hacking, written by Jacob Gershman), the appellate court affirmed the computer-hacking conviction of a former executive (David Nosal) at a recruiting firm accused of using a shared password to steal headhunting leads from the company’s internal network after he left his job to launch a rival business, ruling that he violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).