Another Apple engineer cuffed over alleged self-driving car data theft: FBI swoop on bod as he boards plane to China

Another Apple engineer cuffed over alleged self-driving car data theft: FBI swoop on bod as he boards plane to China

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/31/apple_engineer_self_driving_car_theft_charge/

A second Apple engineer has been arrested by the Feds for allegedly stealing copies of the tech giant's self-driving car blueprints.

Jizhong Chen was hired in the US as an electrical engineer in June 2018 for Cupertino's secretive autonomous vehicle project – which Apple has still yet to publicly acknowledge – when he was spotted taking pictures of his workspace. Apple security bods swooped, and allegedly found that Chen had downloaded an entire copy of his work hard drive onto a personal drive as well as taken thousands of photos of the biz's robo-car technology.

Another Apple engineer cuffed over alleged self-driving car data theft: FBI swoop on bod as he boards plane to China

Jan 31, 2019, 10:38pm UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/31/apple_engineer_self_driving_car_theft_charge/ > A second Apple engineer has been arrested by the Feds for allegedly stealing copies of the tech giant's self-driving car blueprints. > Jizhong Chen was hired in the US as an electrical engineer in June 2018 for Cupertino's secretive autonomous vehicle project – which Apple has still yet to publicly acknowledge – when he was spotted taking pictures of his workspace. Apple security bods swooped, and allegedly found that Chen had downloaded an entire copy of his work hard drive onto a personal drive as well as taken thousands of photos of the biz's robo-car technology.