SAMSUNG

Samsung Electronics was victim of spy employee

As the struggle for leadership in the semiconductor industry intensifies, Samsung Electronics is increasingly becoming the victim of information leaks. According to Business Korea, citing industry sources, an employee was recently laid off from the Device Solutions division. Now he is accused of organizing the leak of documents with the most important information about the company's technologies. Samsung has asked the authorities for a formal investigation.

The expert was caught uploading dozens of important documents, including materials on key semiconductor technologies. Data was sent to your own external email address, after which some documents were sent to another email box.

The company reported the incident to its employees on an internal mailing list, talking about other professionals' punishments for previous leaks, firing an employee and contacting the police for further investigation. This is believed to be done so that employees can assess the destructiveness of trying to sell company secrets.

Earlier it turned out that another specialist from Samsung, who intended to get a job in a foreign company, saved hundreds of screenshots of his computer screen with the most important data on key technologies while working remotely. Once the suspicions were confirmed, the employee was arrested, put on trial and sentenced to one and a half years in prison, a fine of $7,000 and other penalties. However, the prosecution appealed the verdict as too lenient, stating that the former Samsung employee did not fully admit his guilt and did not show proper remorse, so he is now awaiting his next court appearance.

Another Samsung employee who, according to Business Korea, was planning to move to a South Korean partner company, was spotted saving hundreds of screenshots of the screen, also with crucial information. Last month, he was also sentenced to prison, and the prosecution is also appealing the sentence for being too lenient.

Earlier this year, several employees of Samsung Electronics' subsidiary SEMES were sentenced to prison terms for violating a law that protects domestic industrial technologies. As it turned out about a year ago, officials used the technologies they knew to produce 14 pieces of equipment worth tens of millions of dollars, which, according to the publication, they sold to Chinese competitors and research institutes in the Middle Kingdom. It is known that South Korea has recently intensified the fight against technology leakage to China, but this is still not enough.

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