A Mountain View resident and former Apple employee has been charged with stealing trade secrets related to autonomous systems nearly five years after fleeing to China, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
A federal grand jury indicted Weibao Wang, 35, on six counts of theft or attempted theft of trade secrets, according to Ismail Ramsey, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California. The indictment was one of five cases and four arrests from five different U.S. Attorney's offices in connection with a recently-launched Disruptive Technology Strike Force.
After Wang's last day at Apple in April 2018, the company determined Wang had accessed large amounts of sensitive proprietary and confidential information in the days leading up to his departure. Law enforcement searched Wang's Mountain View home on June 27, 2018 and found large quantities of data taken from Apple in the days before he left.
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