ORANGE, Calif. -- The results of a competition just released by Internet filtering and reporting company, 8e6 Technologies, revealed that while some corporate employees may be minding the store -- it's sometimes their own, not the company's. The competition, which solicited the most unusual misuse of network resources revealed by Web filtering, was won by a corporate IT manager whose use of Web filtering revealed an employee who was not only running his own business from within the company, but selling items stolen from the corporate warehouse as well.

"Naturally, we promised anonymity to those who responded," commented Eric Lundbohm, vice president of marketing for 8e6. "Most of the anecdotes were amazing and very serious to the companies involved."

Second prize went to a CTO who had to bring his company back online after the Victoria's Secret Webcast overloaded the network. Third prize went to an infrastructure manager who busted a woman running an outcall service from within the company. Other anecdotes can be found on the 8e6

Of the responses from more than 400 participants, eBay businesses were among those most cited by the study, along with Internet gambling. Pedophilia was among the most serious responses -- a crime with which corporations are extremely concerned for legal liability reasons.