Sometimes, the desire welled out of control. Bad luck for the person concerned, if the result is a violation of social norms and public knowledge. Not just embarrassed, could face lawsuits.
Well, anyone IT officials involved sex scandals and what their "sin"? Here are some of them, as compiled by Business Insider.
1. Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd "tease" the ex-Playboy model
In August 2010, HP chief executive Mark Hurd resigned from the company. The cause was filed charges of sexual harassment after Hurd Jodie Fisher tried to approach an independent contractor who is also the former Playboy model.
According to a letter sent by the attorney Fisher, Hurd who is married and has a child could bring Fisher into a hotel room on a business trip in 2007.
After conducting an independent investigation, HP board concluded that Hurd did not violate the sexual harassment provisions related companies. Which is a violation of business ethics HP. After resigning, Hurd now serves as president of Oracle.
2. ChaCha founder Scott Jones was accused of cheating
Scott Jones is the founder and CEO of ChaCha search engine companies. Last July, via Twitter, Jones's wife accuses him having an affair with an assistant publicist at ChaCha.
"Estella" wife lasted for some time. The story of the affair was poured in a blog so crowded for public consumption.
Jones denied the allegations. Based on blog posts uploaded to his wife last week, they seemed to have reconciled.
3. Venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins "discriminate against" women
In class technology center Silicon Valley though, gender discrimination still occurs. At least that is claimed to Ellen Pao, an employee venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caulfield & Byers, has been done by his workplace.
In a lawsuit filed last summer, the Pao Harvard law school graduate accused Kleiner "intentionally limit" female employees opportunities for career advance and occupy strategic positions in the company.
Pao also claimed to have experienced sexual abuse fellow employees. Completing the charge, Pao said that the complaint had been no response by the company.
Five months after filing charges, 43-year-old woman to leave the company and move to an online community site Reddit.
4. Photos cheating former Oracle president Chuck Phillips on display at the billboard
Not only a wife, a cheating spouse can be made angry when furtive relationship did not go as expected. Consequently be a big shame for the man masher, as experienced by former Oracle president Chuck Philips.
In 2010, Philips photo being alone with a woman named YaVaugnie Wilkins suddenly plastered on billboards in several major cities in the United States, including New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta.
A website address that includes a romantic photo album Wilkins and Philips also listed under the large photo of the two lovebirds.
Allegedly, Wilkins is nothing but a cheating spouse Philips accidentally installing a series of billboards to expose their relationship because of jealousy burned.
Philips himself eventually admitted having an affair with Wilkins, but added that their relationship was over. The man who had entered the Marines are still tied marriage with his wife and worked as a CEO in the software company Infor.
5. Intelius founder John Arnold lied to the court about the alleged sex
To cover up the rot, all means possible perpetrators of immoral, including lying under oath to the jury at trial. Already a lie, uh, still caught, too. That is done by information services company Intelius founder John Arnold.
The story, in February 2009, Arnold was called to testify in court in a case of prostitution erotic club. When asked whether she had had sex with the dancers at the club, Arnold replied "no".
After further investigation, it is known that Arnold apparently had lied. It sounds trivial lies that led to endless lawsuits sentenced to 45 days in jail and a fine of 30,000 U.S. dollars.
Lie lawsuits based on the jury including rare in the U.S. court system. District Attorney was apparently wants Uncle Sam to give examples of past cases that Arnold was repeated actions of others.
6. Savvis CEO spends billions of dollars in the club "topless"
This one may not be the scandal of sex, but rather about the exciting hobby of former CEO Robert McCormick Savvis communications company.
In 2003, McCormick along with three male friends watch the erotic show in topless bar Scores in New York. What a surprise she found the credit card bills amounting to 241,000 U.S. dollars, or about 2.5 billion dollars after spending the night in that place.
McCormick then call the credit card company American Express and claim to have been victims of counterfeit bills and do not want to pay. In the end, American Express filed a lawsuit on McCormick ago resigned from her job in 2005.
Scores spokesman explained that the club's wealthy clients used to spend "thousands of dollars" just for a bottle of champagne and gave tips to the dancers. The entire bill called the McCormick has obtained authorization from the concerned.
7. Former PayPal executive Keith Rabois involved sexual abuse
In Silicon Valley, the name Keith Rabois known as a veteran executive who had worked at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square. But the company's latest venture in whose name the latter was stopped with less awkward.
Because, Rabois suffered sexual harassment charges filed by an employee of Square. In his confession, Rabois said that he had been established "physical relationship" with the employee since before joining to the same office.
The relationship apparently continued and eventually lead to trouble for Rabois. He admitted that he "misjudged" in this case and decided to get out of the Square rather than just dragging the company into a legal case melibatknnya.
Square is a digital payments company founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Rabois who worked at Square since 2010 helped the company grow from 17 employees initially only have up to now employs more than 400 people.
8. Former TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington accused of rape
This is what happens if the ex-boyfriend did not accept abandoned.
Last April, former TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington as well as venture capitalists accused of violence and rape against his ex-girlfriend, Jenn Allen.
Two serious allegation was made solely by Allen in an unusual way: through a posting on Facebook that was written at 2 am and the comments on the blog.
It is then taken up by the mainstream media that raises the name Allen Arrington and among the public.
Arrington does not do anything that feels like alleged Allen then sued the women entrepreneurs on "defamation". According to him, Allen was just emotion and anger because his former girlfriend began a relationship with another person.
9. Google boss Eric Schmidt apparently "Womanizer"?
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is married, but live separately with his wife because his wife feels like a "suitcase" by following Eric who often travel around the world.
Perhaps because of that, the 58-year-old executive chairman is said to have many girlfriends crowded outside the marriage official.
Eric boyfriend said to come from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from TV producer, presenter, pianist until Vietnam. Everything is a successful young woman, glamor, and comes from "a certain age categories".
Eric's wife, Wendy Schmidt, reportedly has "received" their marriage is "open" and lives alone in one of the couple's home in Massachusetts and conducted focus charity. Eric himself refused to comment on this.