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[The Cockatrice]

Laid-off Intel employee allegedly steals 'Top Secret' files, then disappears — ex-engineer downloaded 18,000 files before vanishing

The ex-employee took a treasure trove of data with him after Intel let him go.

www.tomshardware.com

A former software engineer is facing a $250,000 lawsuit from Intel after he allegedly stole tens of thousands of files, including data labeled as "Intel Top Secret" According to The Mercury News, Jinfeng Luo, who started at Intel in 2014, received a termination notice last July 7th, ending his service with the company at the same month. Luo downloaded around 18,000 files in total, and then disappeared, with Intel now pressing a lawsuit in an effort to recover its property.

Intel detected and investigated the transfers soon after Luo completed them, and it has been attempting to reach him regarding the data breach for over three months. However, after he failed to respond to its multiple phone calls, emails, and even letters delivered via post, the company was forced to file a case against him to help recover the files.

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[Kurotri]

 

[nush]

The topic title, yeah it's going to be a Chinese person.

I'm guessing he was "laid off" after taking the files and Intel covered it up.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

Would China really be interested? Maybe on what not to do?

 

[BlackTron]

The wording of it makes it unclear whether he downloaded the files after receiving his termination notice, or was terminated in response to downloading the files.

Of course, there is no such thing as recovering the files now because they can be copied infinite times.

 

[kazuyamishima]

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Supreme leader will prolly send Spec Ops after the guy seeing as US Gov have such a large stake on Intel now LOL.

 

[Robochobo]

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The Chinese in question:

 

[crackajack]

$250,000 lawsuit from Intel after he allegedly stole tens of thousands of files, including data labeled as "Intel Top Secret"

That almost seems cheap for a lot of data.

 

[Signalis]

Supreme leader will prolly send Spec Ops after the guy seeing as US Gov have such a large stake on Intel now LOL.

Who is Supreme leader?

 

[GHG]

That almost seems cheap for a lot of data.

Have you seen their products of late?

It's almost as if they are admitting any information that's stolen from them isn't going to be worth much.

 

[AJUMP23]

Nintendo would have him dead already.

 

[IAmRei]

This could be called as "Intelception"

 

[crackajack]

Have you seen their products of late?

Still better than Chinese products so far. So getting some hints for new ideas or just hints on what not to do, might be worth millions for SMIC, Huawei, ZTE, Xiaomi or whoever is involved in anything that is chip manufacturing and design. Just because Ryzen is currently better and its price tag is already showing it, Intel is still used in almost all workstations configurations, and on the GPU side they have made some progress, eg B50 being a product that is an actually rather cheap pro card, an area AMD was and is irrelevant since forever and only Quadros/RTX Pro ever mattered.

 

[PaintTinJr]

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Of course, there is no such thing as recovering the files now because they can be copied infinite times.

We can't be 100% sure that Intel themselves have a copy of those 18,000 files still....so recover would just be them getting a copy back themselves

 

[BlackTron]

We can't be 100% sure that Intel themselves have a copy of those 18,000 files still....so recover would just be them getting a copy back themselves

That would take him downloading them all in addition to deleting them and ensuring any backups were gone...

That's hardcore af

 

[Chukhopops]

it has been attempting to reach him regarding the data breach for over three months. However, after he failed to respond to its multiple phone calls, emails, and even letters delivered via post, the company was forced to file a case against him to help recover the files.

HR and Legal in shock after an ex-employee who stole top level data doesn't respond to emails, forcing them to send a letter with bold text:

 

[calistan]

he allegedly stole tens of thousands of files ... Luo downloaded around 18,000 files in total

Technically that's not tens of thousands, is it? It's just one ten of thousands, plus a bonus eight of thousands.

Since we're talking about computer secrets, I think accuracy is important.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Supreme leader will prolly send Spec Ops after the guy seeing as US Gov have such a large stake on Intel now LOL.

 

[Aressa]

An Intel employee stole intel from Intel