FBI charges former Apple employee with stealing trade secrets from self-driving car project
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/10/17556034/fbi-apple-trade-secrets-xpeng-self-driving
An engineer who worked on Appleās secretive autonomous car project allegedly stole trade secrets for a Chinese car startup backed by Alibaba, according to new charges filed by the FBI.
Xiaolang Zhang, who worked for Apple from December 2015 until May 2018, has been charged in federal court with stealing trade secrets, and faces 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Zhang was arrested trying to leave the country this past weekend. The news was first reported by The Mercury News.