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Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets

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Feed Name: Infosecurity Magazine (News)

Threat Score
78/100

Date Published: 2026-02-02

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

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A former Google engineer, Linwei (Leon) Ding, was convicted on multiple counts of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets after allegedly copying more than 2,000 pages of sensitive technical information related to Google’s TPUs, GPUs, SmartNICs and orchestration software and uploading them to a personal Google Cloud account using methods designed to evade DLP; prosecutors say he planned to use the stolen IP to build AI infrastructure and chips in China, and faces lengthy prison terms.

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