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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: