http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/07/05/daily29.html Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal July 8, 2004 A Chinese citizen, Yan Ming Shan, 34, of Daqing, China, has pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose to a one-count indictment charging him with gaining unauthorized access to the computers of a Silicon Valley business in an attempt to steal proprietary software programs and source code, according to the U.S. Attorney's office for Northern California. According to the criminal complaint and other court filings, Mr. Shan worked for 3DGeo Development, Inc., a Mountain View company that develops software used to survey land for sources of natural gas and oil from April to September 2002. 3DGeo employed Mr. Shan under an agreement with one of its customers, PetroChina, a Chinese company with a division named DaQing Oil, which arranged for Mr. Shan to travel to California for training on 3DGEO's software. In pleading guilty to the indictment, Mr. Shan admitted that he gained unauthorized access to 3DGeo's computer system with an intent to defraud the company. The maximum statutory penalty he faces is five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Sentencing is scheduled before U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel in San Jose on Sept. 7. _________________________________________ Help InfoSec News with a donation: http://www.c4i.org/donation.html
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