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Industrial espionage, also known as economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage, is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security. [ 1 ] While political espionage is conducted or orchestrated by governments and is international in scope, industrial or corporate espionage is more often ...
In 2006 (five years after their arrest), they pleaded guilty to two counts each of economic espionage. In 2008, they were sentenced to a year in prison. The maximum sentence is 30 years however prosecutors asked for less because of their cooperation. The case resulted in the first convictions under the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. [23] [24]
Eastman Kodak v Harold Worden is a case of industrial espionage involving the sale of information by Harold Worden, a former Kodak manager, to Kodak's competitors in 1995. . Worden was caught selling details on the 401 process, a process designed to increase the speed and quality of film during development, during a sting operation conducted by Kodak after two of their competitors, Konica and ...
In the ongoing case between Jawbone and Fitbit, a US International Trade Commission judge ruled Tuesday that Fitbit did not steal trade secrets from its major fitness tracking competitor. Last ...
The Linwei Ding case illustrates what U.S. officials say is an ongoing nightmare: ... was among the first to publicize state-sponsored Chinese corporate espionage back in 2011.
A contractor for the U.S. government has been arrested on espionage charges, accused of providing a foreign country classified information that he downloaded and printed from his work computer ...
Chinese government agencies and affiliated personnel have been accused of using a number of methods to obtain U.S. technology (using U.S. law to avoid prosecution), including espionage, exploitation of commercial entities, and a network of scientific, academic and business contacts. [4] Prominent espionage cases include Larry Wu-tai Chin ...
Convicted of six counts of the espionage act for providing classified information to Wikileaks: July 30, 2013 35-year sentence, commuted (released May 17, 2017) Dongfan "Greg" Chung Chinese Convicted of economic espionage; stole trade secrets related to the US Space Shuttle program and the Delta IV rocket and provided them to China [2] July 16 ...