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A former Apple engineer on Monday was accused of stealing secrets from a self-driving car technology project, before leaving for a Chinese start-up.
Xiaolang Zhang was detained for stealing trade secrets from the Apple project, according to a copy of the criminal complaint posted online.
The charge is punishable by 10 years in jail and $ 250,000 fine.
"Apple takes the privacy and protection of our intellectual property very seriously" "We are working with the authorities on this issue and will do our utmost to ensure that this person and all other persons involved are held responsible for their actions, "he added.
Zhang was hired by Apple in December 2015 to be part of a hardware and software development team for autonomous vehicles, a project that was a "well-kept secret," according to the complaint filed by the FBI. 196 59007] Zhang took paternity leave in April, going with his family to China.
Upon his return to Apple in late April, he told a supervisor that he was resigning to return to China near his sick mother.
Zhang said he was considering going to work for a Chinese start-up called Xiaopeng Motors, or XMotors, in Guangzhou, according to the complaint.
The supervisor thought that Zhang 'evasive' and brought an Apple product According to the security agency, Apple found that Zhang's business activity on the network had exploded exponentially in the days preceding his return from paternity leave. 19659012] Zhang researched confidential databases, and downloaded technical files, according to the criminal complaint.
Documents uploaded by Zhang included some on topics such as "prototypes", depending on the case against him. Zhang flies to the laboratories of the autonomous driving technical team on a Saturday night while he was on paternity leave, according to the filing.
Zhang later admitted to taking circuit boards and a hardware lab Linux server, Zhang was "voluntarily fired" from Apple in early March, and FBI agents ransacked his home in June in the framework of their investigation
. Zhang told the FBI that he was working in the offices of XMotors in Silicon Valley, according to the complaint.
Zhang was traveling to China with a "last minute round trip ticket" when FBI agents stopped him at an airport in San Jose's Silicon Valley town, the depot said.
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