Syudun William Yao (Xudong William Yao)

Syudun William Yao (Xudong William Yao)

Biography

2019: Theft of source codes of management systems and escape to China

In the middle of July, 2019 it became known that the Syudun software engineer William Yao working for the producer of locomotives in Chicago stole source codes of management systems and ran away to China with three thousand files. It disappears after theft and still is not found law enforcement agencies.

Xiudong Yao is the naturalized American citizen who graduated Northwestern University of the State of Illinois and years working hard in the field of telematics of vehicles. The producer of locomotives who wished to remain the unknown employed Yao in 2014. The American prosecutor's office reports that within two weeks Yao unloaded more than 3000 electronic files containing source codes of management systems for locomotives on the personal notebook.

Within the next six months Yao continued to unload the files representing corporate and intellectual property. In particular, he stole nine complete copies of the source code of a management system of the company and technical drawings in which it is in detail described how the source code works.

In February, 2015 Yao was dismissed for the reasons which were not connected with theft of intellectual property. During the period from September, 2014 to October, 2015 Yao got a job in a certain Chinese company which is described in the indictment as "the system provider of automobile telematics". It went to China and began to work in the company in July, 2015.

It is supposed that after Yao's dismissal made copies of kidnapped persons of data, went to China to the new employer. Since then Yao's trace was lost, and the police consider that it is on the run and lives in the territory in China. The warrant for his arrest was issued in 2017, but the engineer is still not delayed. In case of Yao's detention threatens up to 10 years of prison.^[1]

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