{"id":113386,"date":"2026-08-09T04:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/113386\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T04:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:27:06","slug":"former-sk-hynix-employee-jailed-for-leaking-information-to-a-chinese-firm-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/113386\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SK Hynix employee jailed for leaking information to a Chinese firm: report\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-description\">Classified information on CMOS image sensors was leaked to the Chinese firm in 2022<\/p>\n<p>Published Sun, Aug 9, 2026 \u00b7 10:44 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SEOUL] A former employee at SK Hynix has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for leaking information on semiconductor manufacturing technology to a Chinese firm, the Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday (Aug 9).<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The Seoul High Court made the ruling in an appeal case against the defendant, upholding the lower court\u2019s sentence, for leaking classified information on so-called CMOS image sensors, a technology used for non-memory chips in smartphone cameras and laptops, to a Chinese company in 2022, Yonhap said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The court found that the employee, who formerly worked at SK Hynix\u2019s office in China, printed out or took photos of documents containing trade secrets downloaded from the company\u2019s internal server, a violation of its security rules, according to Yonhap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The defendant disclosed some of the information in a resume submitted to a Chinese firm, Yonhap said, without naming the Chinese company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The man admitted all of the charges and most of the information he took was retrieved by the company, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6 inline-block\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The Seoul High Court did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment outside business hours. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Classified information on CMOS image sensors was leaked to the Chinese firm in 2022 Published Sun, Aug 9,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[12249,1136,241,275,33],"class_list":["post-113386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk-hynix","tag-espionage","tag-semiconductors","tag-sk","tag-sk-hynix","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113386","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=113386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}