"Ding, also known as Leon Ding, was employed as an engineer by Google. He reportedly stole hundreds of documents on AI chip technology to build his own startup in China. He allegedly began transferring thousands of internal Google documents in May 2022, copying them into his Apple Notes App and then converting them to PDF files, which he uploaded to a personal cloud account. Ding reportedly transferred 1,255 documents, totaling an estimated 14,000 pages, over the course of one year."
"Isaiah Poritz reports that after a criminal trial in federal court in the Northern District of California, Linwei Ding has been found guilty of 14 counts of economic espionage and trade secrets theft. At the time of his arrest in March 2024, Ding was charged with four counts of theft of trade secrets. A superseding indictment in February of 2025 added additional charges, and a second superseding indictment expanded the dates of his alleged crimes from May 2022 to January 2024."
Linwei Ding was found guilty on 14 counts of economic espionage and trade secrets theft following a federal criminal trial in the Northern District of California. Ding worked as a Google engineer and allegedly stole hundreds of internal documents on AI chip technology to build a startup in China. He began transferring documents in May 2022 by copying them into his Apple Notes app, converting them to PDFs, and uploading them to a personal cloud account. Ding transferred 1,255 documents totaling an estimated 14,000 pages over the course of a year. He was arrested in March 2024; initial charges included four counts of theft of trade secrets. A superseding indictment in February 2025 added charges and a second superseding indictment extended the alleged crime dates to January 2024. The case is USA v. Ding, N.D. Cal., No. 3:24-cr-00141 (1/29/26).
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