{"id":10283,"date":"2026-01-31T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-for-html\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:03:28","slug":"ex-google-engineer-convicted-for-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-for-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google Engineer Convicted for Stealing 2,000 AI Trade Secrets for China Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ex-Google Engineer Convicted for Stealing 2,000 AI Trade Secrets for China Startup<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A former Google engineer accused of stealing thousands of the company&#8217;s confidential documents to build a startup in China has been convicted in the U.S., the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday.<br \/>\nLinwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), 38, was convicted by a federal jury on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for taking over 2,000 documents containing<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/01\/ex-google-engineer-convicted-for.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Google Engineer Convicted for Stealing 2,000 AI Trade Secrets for China Startup A former Google engineer accused of stealing thousands of the company&#8217;s confidential documents to build a startup in China has been convicted in the U.S., the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), 38, was convicted by a federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-10283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}