Jinfeng Luo, who was laid off from Intel, reportedly downloaded thousands of files worth of ‘top secret’ company info.

Intel is launching a lawsuit against an ex-employee who may have carried out an egregious act of corporate sabotage against the company. If Intel is to be believed, said former employee Jinfeng Luo copied around 18,000 files from corporate servers and then disappeared. Though he has not turned up, Intel is filing a lawsuit alleging about $250,000 worth of damages should the former employee appear.

Intel filed the lawsuit against Luo in Seattle District Court, as spotted and reported by The Oregonian news outlet. According to Intel, Luo was among those set to be laid off by the company by the end of 2025. Luo was reportedly informed of his termination on July 7, which was to become former by July 31. In the time after, he reportedly plugged an external drive into company hardware and was locked out by security. He then supposedly plugged another storage device into company hardware about five days later and was successful in copying around 18,000 files.

Intel (INTC) stock dipped a bit on the morning news of the lawsuit it was filing against an ex-employee who allegedly stole thousands of company files. Source: Google

Intel alleges that some of the files Jinfeng Luo may have copied included “top secret” or “confidential” company materials. The transfer of files triggered a company investigation and Intel has been trying to get ahold of him for months at three separate listed addresses to attempt to discover what was taken. However, Luo has not appeared in any of his addresses and his location remains unknown.

Such being the case, Intel is likely to continue searching fervently for any sign of Luo, and whether he turns up or not, the implications of such an alleged theft could have unforeseen consequences for the tech firm, in which the United States government recently invested. Stay tuned for more updates and news on this story via the Intel topic.

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