An electric technologist secretly uploaded onto his personal Dropbox account thousands of file cabinet contain sensitive information about the unmanned underwater vehicles his company was prepare for the U.S. Navy ’s Office of Naval Research .
A Connecticut federal panel on Monday find Jared Sparks of Ardmore , Oklahoma , hangdog of multiple counts of thieving of trade secrets and of uploading of business deal secret , according to arelease from the U.S. Department of Justice . Each tally carries a maximal prison sentence of 10 years .
“ Yesterday ’s verdict sends a clear content that the Department of Justice is committed to protecting American intellectual attribute and will sharply prosecute those who steal it , ” behave Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan said in the release .
Sparks used to work for LBI Inc. , a Connecticut - based DoD contractor that makes subaqueous drones for the U.S. Navy , as well as weather datum - tuck buoys for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . While at that companionship , he cooperate with Charles River Analytics ( CRA ) , a company that made software for the LBI droning . Sparks was finally charter by CRA in January 2012 , but before he switched business , he save raw company and military information — include renderings and design photograph of LBI drones and buoy — onto the cloud - memory service Dropbox , according to DOJ .
It ’s a good admonisher to forfend saving internal document when you leave your home of employment to work for a competitor — specially if both of those company are contractors for the U.S. armed forces .
[ U.S. Department of JusticeviaEngadget ]
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