Intel Sues Ex-Engineer for Stealing 18,000 ‘Top Secret’ Files

Intel, the leading computer chip maker, has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $250,000 in damages from a former software engineer, Jinfeng Luo, who is accused of stealing a huge amount of confidential company data before disappearing.

This incident comes as Intel faces massive job cuts. The company, as we know it, has laid off around 35,500 employees over the last couple of years as it tries to fix its money troubles.

Luo, who had worked at Intel since 2014, was notified on July 7, 2024, that his job was ending at the end of that month. According to court filings reported by media outlets, just days before his last day, Luo allegedly copied about 18,000 files onto a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device. A NAS is basically a special hard drive connected to a network, making it possible to store and share data.

These files were not ...