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Story summary
- Seoul High Court upheld an 18-month jail term for a former SK Hynix employee who leaked trade secrets to a Chinese firm.
- The leaked material involved CMOS image-sensor designs for smartphone cameras and laptops.
- The employee in SK Hynix’s China office copied server files and listed them in a 2022 resume to an unnamed Chinese company.
- He admitted all charges, prompting SK Hynix to recover most of the stolen data.
