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

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76% Informative

A former employee of SK hynix was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined 20 million ($ 14,300 ) for stealing critical semiconductor technology.

The court found her guilty of breaching South Korea's laws on industrial technology protection.

The defendant had worked at SK Hynix since 2013 , beginning in chip defect analysis.

She allegedly printed around 300 pages per day and concealed them in her backpack and shopping bags to avoid detection.

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77

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78

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21

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semi-formal

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English

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63

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medium-lived

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