Apple Engineer Accused of Stealing Autonomous Car Secrets

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http://www.fortune.com/2019/01/31/apple-worker-spying-driverless-cars/

By Lucas Laursen
Fortune.com
January 31, 2019

U.S. prosecutors have charged Apple hardware engineer Jizhong Chen with 
industrial espionage after files containing sensitive manuals, schematics 
and diagrams were discovered on his personal hard drive, NBC Bay Area 
reports.

Chen worked in the driverless cars section of the company, which recently 
fired some 200 employees in a restructuring. In July, prosecutors accused 
another employee, Xialang Zhang, of similar espionage involving the same 
Apple program.

The arrest took place after an Apple employee reported Chen to security 
officials earlier this month for taking photographs in a restricted work 
area. NBC reports that investigators found about a hundred photographs 
taken inside an Apple building on his hard drive.

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