A former IBM employee who charges a spy that stole confidential information for China admits the crime

ByEric Sonstroem

In a case where IBM's former software engineer was arrested and indicted as stolen the confidential source code, the federal prosecutor announced that the former engineer approved the crime.

Ex-IBM Employee Guilty of Stealing Secrets for China | Fortune.com
http://fortune.com/2017/05/21/ibm-employee-theft-secrets-china/


IBM Employee, Linux Kernel Hacker, Charged with Spying for China | Digital Guardian
https://digitalguardian.com/blog/ibm-employee-linux-kernel-hacker-charged-spying-china

Chinese National Charged for Stealing Source Code from Former Employer with Intent to Benefit Chinese Government | OPA | Department of Justice
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-charged-stealing-source-code-former-employer-intent-benefit-chinese


The defendant worked at IBM as a developer of the general-purpose file system "IBM General Parallel File System" from November 2010 to May 2014. After retirement, I was aiming for entrepreneurship with investors in storage technology, but the software source code used in this technology was stolen from IBM was used.

The investor who was organizing at this time was actually an FBI agent who hid his identity, and the defendant was arrested in December 2015 in the manner of an undercover investigation. The defendant copied and owned IBM's source code to benefit China's National Health Planning and Development Committee.

The defendant was charged with three economic spies of 15 years at maximum and three cases of trade secrets theft of up to 10 years of imprisonment without labor, but on May 19, 2017 (Fri) of 2017, the source code I admitted that I had stolen.

Lawyer Leanne Marek, who is in charge of defense on this matter, and IBM have declined to comment. The ruling is scheduled to be issued on Friday, October 13, 2017.

By the way, due to frequent occurrence of industrial espionage and economic espionage of this sort, the US and China agree not to do economic spies at cyberspace in September 2015.

The U.S. and China agree not to conduct economic espionage in cyberspace - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-us-and-china-agree-not-to-conduct-economic-espionage-in-cyberspace/2015/09/25/1c03f4b8-63a2-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html