A former exec at a Chinese matchmaking firm has been accused of stealing personal data on 16,000 members, then trying to sell that data to competing firms.

"According to a news report by Yomiuri Shimbun, the Chiba-based matchmaking firm, Web In Chiba Prefecture, is planning to lodge a criminal complaint over theft and other crimes against the 49-year-old former board member, who allegedly removed the information before he quit the firm in August 2006," writes DarkReading's Tim Wilson.

"Upon learning of the former executive's efforts, the company contacted the Chiba prefectural police, the report says," Wilson writes.

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