VANCOUVER - When Nick Belmonte left his $150,000-a-year job at C-W Agencies in Vancouver earlier this month, the owners of the company accused him of taking a computer backup tape containing names and information about 3.2 million customers, potentially worth more than $10 million.

The company said the tape also contained credit card and bank account information of more than 800,000 customers.

Although the information was in encrypted form, the tape contained information and programs to decrypt the data, according to a company executive.

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