Tuesday, June 13th 2023

Ex-Samsung Executive Arrested for Stealing Company Secrets to Build Fabs in China

According to the latest report from Reuters, a former Samsung executive was arrested by the South Korean authorities yesterday, being accused of stealing company secrets to build a similar chip production facility in China. The former executive had worked for SK Hynix before joining Samsung, where he was involved in the Samsung Electronics division responsible for semiconductor factories. According to the report, the person planned to build a competing factory 1.5 km from a Samsung chip manufacturing facility in Xian, China. The suspect, who was not identified publically, has a collective of 28 years of experience with the South Korean chip makers.

Interestingly, the suspect also caused financial harm to the company, which the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office estimates to be around 300 billion won ($233 million). Prosecutors have announced the indictment of six additional individuals suspected of involvement in the case, including an employee of an inspection company who is charged with allegedly disclosing the architectural blueprint of Samsung's semiconductor plant. A police official commented, "We will sternly deal with any leakage of our technology abroad and strongly respond to illegal leak of domestic companies' core technologies in semiconductor, automobile and shipbuilding sectors among other."
Source: Reuters
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5 Comments on Ex-Samsung Executive Arrested for Stealing Company Secrets to Build Fabs in China

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maxfly
Industrial espionage at it's best or worst? Whichever, he was was getting paid.
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Prima.Vera
Some things never change I guess...
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eidairaman1
The Exiled Airman
Must of been a North Korean, at least there is some form of accountability going on in other countries (not the us)
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