{"id":113286,"date":"2026-08-09T02:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/113286\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T02:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:11:17","slug":"former-sk-hynix-employee-jailed-for-leaking-information-to-a-chinese-firm-yonhap-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/113286\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SK Hynix employee jailed for leaking information to a Chinese firm, Yonhap reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SEOUL, Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; A former employee at SK Hynix has been sentenced to \u200c18 months in jail for leaking information \u200con semiconductor manufacturing technology to a Chinese firm, the Yonhap \u200bnews agency reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Seoul High Court made the ruling in an appeal case against the defendant, upholding the lower court&#8217;s sentence, for \u200cleaking classified information \u2060on so-called CMOS image sensors, a technology used for non-memory chips in \u2060smartphone cameras and laptops, to a Chinese company in 2022, Yonhap said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The court found that the \u200bemployee, who \u200bformerly worked at \u200bSK Hynix&#8217;s office in \u200cChina, printed out or took photos of documents containing trade secrets downloaded from the company&#8217;s internal server, a violation of its security rules, according to Yonhap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The defendant disclosed some of the \u200cinformation in a resume submitted \u200bto a Chinese firm, Yonhap \u200bsaid, without naming \u200bthe Chinese company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man admitted \u200call of the charges and \u200bmost of \u200bthe information he took was retrieved by the company, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Seoul High Court \u200bdid not \u200cimmediately respond to a Reuters request for \u200bcomment outside business hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Heejin Kim; \u200bEditing by Lincoln Fesat.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, Aug 9 (Reuters) &#8211; A former employee at SK Hynix has been sentenced to \u200c18 months in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[58274,58273,4344,241,275,5220],"class_list":["post-113286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk-hynix","tag-chinese-company","tag-chinese-firm","tag-seoul-high-court","tag-sk","tag-sk-hynix","tag-yonhap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}