Apple worker arrested over stealing tech secrets

An Apple worker has been charged by the FBI for stealing trade secrets.

According to reports, the Chinese national was investigated after another employee reported seeing the engineer taking photographs in a sensitive workspace.

Jizhong Chen, who reportedly attempted to leak confidential intellectual information about the company's secret self-driving car project to China, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and is liable to pay a maximum fine of $250,000. 

He was arrested a day before he was scheduled to take off for China.

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