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Apple’s team found Chen had “over two thousand files containing confidential and proprietary Apple material, including manuals, schematics, and diagrams,” according to the charging document. They also found “hundreds” of photographs of computer screens with sensitive company information displayed, including some that were clearly of his own laptop — a way to get around the company’s internal monitoring systems, the FBI says. The complaint details specific photographs taken as recently as December, but also as long ago as June 2018, just a few weeks after Chen was hired
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Chen was arrested one day before he was scheduled to fly to China. He had told Apple he planned to visit his sick father, according to the complaint. Chen faces up to 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. .

An engineering professor at the University of Tennessee was arrested today after allegedly concealing his relationship with a Chinese university while working on projects for US government agencies, including NASA.

Anming Hu has been on the faculty of UT Knoxville’s Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering since 2013. But, prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed today, he was also a faculty member at the Beijing University of Technology’s (BJUT) Institute of Laser Engineering, pursuing research sponsored by the Chinese government, and actively hid the affiliation from UT officials.

Raytheon Missile Systems engineer Wei Sun, 48, has been arrested by the FBI for taking his laptop with missile defense secrets to China and lying about it.

The Chinese-born American citizen had worked for the U.S. defense contractor for more than a decade and had earned secret-level clearance for his work with highly sensitive missile programs developed for the military. But Quartz is the first to report that prosecutors now say Sun took his company laptop on a trip overseas despite Raytheon security officials warning him not to. He also told his bosses that he only traveled to the Philippines and Singapore when he actually also traveled to China. On Jan. 7, he reportedly logged onto Raytheon’s internal network while abroad and sent a letter of resignation, saying he intended to work and study overseas. When he returned, his bosses quizzed him about inconsistencies in his itinerary, and he confessed to also having also traveled to China.