While information theft at giant corporations has been on the agenda from time to time, the biggest of these has been on the agenda for the past few months. Engineer working on Apple’s secret autonomous car project Xiaolang ZhangWhen he moved to the China-based Guangzhou Xiaopeng Motors Technology, also known as ‘Xpeng’, he brought many important information and equipment took it too.

Apple, in the information it shared as a result of its research, Zhang’s total 24 GB large He explained that he had discovered that he had transferred the ‘too problematic’ file to his wife’s computer. In addition, Zhang took circuit boards and a server from the company’s autonomous car lab, along with the files he had stolen using AirDrop.

The engineer pleaded guilty:

Zhang, who worked on the project between 2015 and 2018, confessed to his crime according to the latest details shared. Although the details of the confession agreement between Zhang and Apple were not shared, it was announced that the conference to determine the sentence to be given to Zhang will take place on November 14. Stealing trade secrets under US law, up to a maximum of 10 years in prison corresponds. According to CNBC, Zhang could be fined up to a quarter of a million dollars.

Apple has previously organized the theft of trade secrets:

Apple also had a problem with a former Apple employee in 2019. In addition, this information also belongs to the autonomous vehicle project and was transferred again to Xpeng. your employee it tries to steal manuals, diagrams, diagrams and photos was given up. It is known that the investigation into the employee is still ongoing.

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