News South Korean engineer smuggled out shopping bags full of secret SK hynix docs to give to Huawei

[Admin]

SK hynix prohibits using USB drives on its sides, so its former engineer printed 4,000 pages to take away with her following her resignation.

South Korean engineer smuggled out shopping bags full of secret SK hynix docs to give to Huawei : Read more

 

[Pierce2623]

I’d literally execute a guy willing to give away some of S Korea’s most valuable IP for a little money, if I wax in charge. That’s one of the many reasons I’m not in charge, though.

 

[newtechldtech]

Huawei are happy that they got rid of such a stupid engineer.

instead of loading the document files in few seconds into a tiny flash , she turned them into papers and took her forever to print and smuggle them out and risked getting caught.

If you can print 4000 pages then you have access to the files. why print them ?

I think she is telling the truth ... she Just needed to study them and saved on ink cost ...

 

[Dementoss]

This article needs checking a bit.

She printed 4000 pages, over 4 days, at 300 per day, are you sure about that?

 

[wawaplanets]

Why leave out the fact that the employee was a Chinese national? It is obvious that this important information was left out deliberately and instead highlighted "South Korean Engineer" in the title to obscure that fact. Other more serious and reputable websites have that information. Seems like Tom's themselves does not consider their work to be serious.

 

[sibirianvolk]

I’d literally execute a guy willing to give away some of S Korea’s most valuable IP for a little money, if I wax in charge. That’s one of the many reasons I’m not in charge, though.

...That, and the fact that you wax doesn't help, me think....😆

 

[sibirianvolk]

Huawei are happy that they got rid of such a stupid engineer.

instead of loading the document files in few seconds into a tiny flash , she turned them into papers and took her forever to print and smuggle them out and risked getting caught.

If you can print 4000 pages then you have access to the files. why print them ?

I think she is telling the truth ... she Just needed to study them and saved on ink cost ...

If you actually read the article, you would have seen that usb/flash drives are specifically forbidden at that company, hence the resort to copying...

 

[bill001g]

This is old news unless she just now was sentenced to jail.

 

[sibirianvolk]

Why leave out the fact that the employee was a Chinese national? It is obvious that this important information was left out deliberately and instead highlighted "South Korean Engineer" in the title to obscure that fact. Other more serious and reputable websites have that information. Seems like Tom's themselves does not consider their work to be serious.

Please enlighten us as to "WHY" do you think Tom's "hid" this crucial piece of info and "deliberately mislead us"? I burn to know the underlying conspiracy...

 

[newtechldtech]

If you actually read the article, you would have seen that usb/flash drives are specifically forbidden at that company, hence the resort to copying...

smuggling a flash stick is easier than 4000 papers

 

[ex_bubblehead]

smuggling a flash stick is easier than 4000 papers

Not if security is on the ball. The simple act of inserting the stick would set off alarms and alert security to the exact PC that was just compromised. Or, USB ports are completely disabled by network policy.

 

[newtechldtech]

Not if security is on the ball. The simple act of inserting the stick would set off alarms and alert security to the exact PC that was just compromised. Or, USB ports are completely disabled by network policy

I know but I think she had access privileges . Security also prevents printing out 4000 pages , also restricts access to printers as well .

 

[ex_bubblehead]

I know but I think she had access privileges . Security also prevents printing out 4000 pages , also restricts access to printers as well .

Then heads need to roll in the network security department. Properly implemented, security would have been immediately notified of the excessive printing (it was probably logged as it was) and taken proper steps to see that nothing left the site. There should have been an immediate visit to his/her desk within moments of the alert and his/her account forceably logged out and disabled to prevent further compromise. If the information is that sensitive then the security must be equally tight and uncompromising.

 

[Geef]

Ah geez, why don't they do something amazing for stealing IP? Breed a few homing pigeons and tie a micro SD card on it's leg.
"Hmm, Jones sure likes to feed the birds every day during his lunch hour!"

 

[Tonet666]

smuggling a flash stick is easier than 4000 papers

Yes, she should have used the "prison pocket" method.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Yes, she should have used the "prison pocket" method.

All right. Let's everyone keep it clean and on topic here.

 

[JohnyFin]

This article must be veryfy because even idiots knows better ways to still safely documents (flash, cloud storage, etc)

 

[upsetkiller]

Please enlighten us as to "WHY" do you think Tom's "hid" this crucial piece of info and "deliberately mislead us"? I burn to know the underlying conspiracy...

Just typical tomshardware users ignorant rants about china and other eastern countries , nothing more to it im willing to brt.

 

[wawaplanets]

Just typical tomshardware users ignorant rants about china and other eastern countries , nothing more to it im willing to brt.

Chinese employee stole information and ran to Huawei to give stolen information. Chinese employee was caught and sent to prison. Seems like par for the course for China. This is probably one of the biggest part of the story of which Tom's decided to obscure.

It's obvious people like you are not honest brokers, and everyone can see that.

 

[USAFRet]

Seeing as this has gone beyond 'informational', and into just sniping at other users.....closing this.