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00:02A former SK Hynix employee was sentenced to 18 months in prison
00:06for leaking confidential semiconductor manufacturing information,
00:10according to Reuters, citing Yonhop News Agency.
00:14The Seoul High Court upheld the sentence after finding the former employee
00:18guilty of disclosing information related to CMOS image sensor technology.
00:23The employee previously worked at SK Hynix's office in China.
00:27The court said he downloaded confidential documents from the company's internal server
00:31and printed or photographed some of them in violation of company security policies.
00:37He later included some of the confidential information
00:39in a resume submitted to an unidentified Chinese company.
00:43The employee admitted to all charges,
00:46and SK Hynix recovered most of the information.
00:49SK Hynix did not immediately respond to Benzinga's request for comment.
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