There's an article on CNN about 3 people who were arrested for trying to steal Coca-Cola trade secrets to PepsiCo. One of the three was an employee at Coke, and provided the information that the other 2 were trying to sell. They offered both confidential documents and a sample of a new, unreleased Coke product. Coke has verified that the information was legitimate.


They were caught because Pepsi provided Coke with the initial letter they received offering them the trade secrets, at which point Coca-Cola got the FBI involved. The FBI was able to track down the sources involved by posing as another buyer of the insider information.