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Technology

May 17, 2023

Former Apple employee accused of trade secret theft flees to China

Charges in his case and four other cases were unsealed Tuesday as the Department of Justice unveiled a new multiagency unit, The Disruptive Technology Strike Force, created to protect critical American technology or data from theft by hostile nations.

A former Apple Inc. employee who was secretly indicted in April on charges he stole technology related to autonomous systems has fled the country, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Weibao Wang, 35 and a citizen of China, was hired by Apple in March 2016 to work as a software engineer in the Bay Area. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District in April. Charges in his case and four other cases were unsealed Tuesday as ...

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