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GE Trade Secrets Thief Arrested
Xiaoqing Zheng, 56, of Niskayuna, New York, has been arrested and charged with stealing trade secrets from General Electric (GE).
According to a criminal complaint filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Belliss of the Northern District of New York, Zheng, an engineer employed by GE, used an elaborate and sophisticated means to remove electronic files containing GE’s trade secrets involving its turbine technologies.
The complaint alleges that Zheng used steganography to hide data files belonging to GE into an innocuous looking digital picture of a sunset, and then to have e-mailed the digital picture, which contained the stolen GE data files, to Zheng’s e-mail account.
Zheng appeared today in federal court in Albany, New York, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Christian F. Hummel and was ordered detained without bail pending a hearing scheduled for August 2, at 1:30 p.m.
The charge filed against Zheng carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of up to three years.
The case is being investigated by the FBI, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Belliss of the Northern District of New York, and Trial Attorneys Jason McCullough and Matt Chang of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Cybercrime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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