Cisco has a man wrongly imprisoned over a civil case

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What else do we know about this guy's hacking efforts at Cisco?

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Previously, I was working for an engineering company that was asked to produce a report on a particular scheme for Network Rail (the company that owns nearly all of the British rail network, but not the trains themselves).

To do this, we needed information on quite a few bridges (666 in the final count) from quite a few different areas (9 different responsibility areas, spread between 4-5 databases and kept in three different offices and one disused railway arch).

I had to wheedle, email, request and frankly confuse people to get access to the information we needed to do the work for them. Sometimes I could find an equivalent engineer who could give me a dump of his private database. Sometimes this included information I wasn't supposed to have. I deleted it. One area I got access to only by 'accidentally' cross talking three people into each thinking the other had given permission.
Later they figured it out and a complaint was made against me. I could easily have been charged with hacking, with access to sensitive documents, privelged information and what have you. I wasn't.

Is there evidence either way that this guy's 'hacking' was white collar crime for profit? Or is it Cisco creatively reinterpreting his previous work for them?