Former SK Hynix employee jailed for leaking information to a Chinese firm, Yonhap reports

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.

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The Seoul High Court made the ruling ​in an appeal case against the defendant, ​upholding the lower court’s sentence, for ⁠leaking classified information on so-called CMOS image sensors, ​a technology used fornon-memory chips, opens new tab in smartphone cameras ​and laptops, to a Chinese company in 2022, Yonhap said.

The court found that the employee, who formerly ​worked at SK Hynix’s office in ​China, printed out or took photos of documents containing ‌trade ⁠secrets downloaded from the company’s internal server, a violation of its security rules, according to Yonhap.

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The defendant disclosed some of the information ​in a ​resume submitted ⁠to a Chinese firm, Yonhap said, without naming the Chinese company.

The ​man admitted all of the charges ​and ⁠most of the information he took was retrieved by the company, the report said.

The ⁠Seoul ​High Court did not immediately ​respond to a Reuters request for comment outside business ​hours.