A former employee of Apple "steals the secrets of her autonomous car"

A former Apple employee was accused of stealing the secrets of the car and attempting from fleeing to China.

Xiao Lang Chang worked on the Autonomous Car Project of Apple, reports that he was planning to move to a Chinese emerging automaker named Xiaopeng Motors, according to Apple's statement in court documents.

Zhang was arrested at the San Jose airport in California on July 7.

] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) accused the employee to steal trade secrets

"Pages in large quantities" [196590] 09] According to the documents of the case, Zhang was appointed in 2015 to develop his own programs and automatic driving devices

However, after his visit to China in April 2018, the employee told his supervisor he was considering moving to Xiaopeng Motors.

The supervisor told the company's security team, who found that Zhang wore "a lot of information pages" secret databases and took a device from the # 39; automobile factory of the company, according to the document. The employee includes "technical drawings, technical reference books and technical reports."

"Sensitive Content"

Approximately 2,700 "core employees" have access to technical databases that are accused of stealing them.

The employee was also charged with taking circuit boards and a main computer ("(19659005) According to the documents, Zhang admitted to stealing information during an interview in June 1965. [19659004] He also admitted, according to the documents, to use the Ederrop service to send sensitive contents from his personal device to an "Apple Mac" computer for his wife.

Zhang may be fined approximately $ 250,000 or more "We are working with the authorities on this matter, and we will do everything in our power to ensure that this person and anyone else involved is responsible for their actions."