Photo Gallery Corporate Spying
Klaus Zumwinkel, the former head of German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom's supervisory board at a May 2007 shareholder meeting. How far, in fact, does the scandal extend: just into Telekom's own past, or possibly into the sphere of influence of other major corporations that may have availed themselves of similar services and dirty tricks?
A Deutsche Telekom employee gathering in Bonn, Germany. The company has admitted to having wiretapped journalists to track company leaks.
Deutsche Bahn chief Hartmut Mehdorn: His company has admitted it spied on employees in an effort to prevent corruption.
Lufthansa CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber has admitted his company used passenger data to trace leaks from the airline's board to a journalist at the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper.
The journalist flew with Lufthansa and met with a company board member at the airline's lounge in Hamburg. The company tracked the leak by matching the journalist's passenger data with information from company employees who recognized the board member in the lounge.
