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PC Gamer
Andy Edser

An SK Hynix employee printed out 4,000 pages of confidential info and carried it out the door in shopping bags before leaving for their new job at Huawei

The same image everyone else is using for SK Hynix's 238-layer 4D NAND Flash announcement.

Usually, a modern data theft story begins and ends with some shady system infiltration, firewall dodging, and presumably someone typing furiously on a keyboard before proudly announcing to no-one in particular, "I'm in!"

It seems like traditional methods are still alive and well though, as a former SK Hynix employee has been found guilty of printing off 4,000 pages worth of sensitive technical documents from one of the company's subsidiaries in Shanghai, and simply carrying them out the door.

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