Software Developer Gets 5 Years For Stealing Source Code

By Dave Simpson (January 19, 2018, 7:58 PM EST) -- A software developer arrested in late 2015, who pled guilty to economic espionage and theft of a trade secret in New York federal court, was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for stealing source code from his former employer, with apparent plans to sell it and use it for the Chinese government....

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