US EditionDeel CEO Implicated in Corporate Espionage as Spy Admits to Theft of Rippling Trade Secrets
- Keith O'Brien, a former Rippling employee, made a sworn statement about spying for Deel around September 2024.
- Alex Bouaziz, Deel's CEO, allegedly recruited O'Brien to gather confidential information from Rippling, a rival HR firm.
- O'Brien provided Rippling's corporate secrets via Telegram, including customer details and corporate strategy, to Bouaziz multiple times daily.
- Bouaziz allegedly offered O'Brien £5,000 monthly for 'spying'; the first payment was $6,000 via Revolut from Alba Basha.
- After Rippling discovered the scheme, O'Brien initially resisted cooperating, destroying evidence and considering fleeing to Dubai, but later agreed to comply.
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Ex-Rippling worker confessed he spied on employer for rival firm Deel — and was paid $5K a month to ‘be like James Bond’
Keith O'Brien, an employer of the San Francisco-based company Rippling, said he was recruited to spy on his employer by the head of a rival firm.
·New York, United States
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‘James Bond’ style spying operation allegedly targeted Bay Area tech firm’s trade secrets
A man alleged in a lawsuit to be a corporate spy who stole secrets from a Bay Area technology firm on behalf of its arch rival says in a court filing that the plan was hatched as a James Bond-style operation. Heavyweight workforce-management software startups Rippling and Deel are locked in a legal battle over claims by Rippling that Deel cultivated a spy in its Irish office who was caught with a “honeypot” trap. The San Francisco companies, acc…
·San Jose, United States
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