HTC Executives Arrested Over Leaked Trade Secrets

An anonymous reader writes "Three HTC executives have been arrested on suspicion of leaking corporate secrets. From the article: Taipei prosecutors confirmed that HTC vice president of product design Thomas Chien, research and development director Wu Chien-Hung and senior manager of design and innovation Justin Huang were arrested on Friday. Mr Chien and Mr Chien-Hung remain in custody, while Mr Huang was released on bail, prosecutors office spokesman Mou Hsin Huang said. The executives were also accused of making false commission fee claims totaling around T$10m ($221,000). No further details about the allegations were immediately available.'"

Comments

What did they steal?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

How much are the secrets of going into a surprisingly steep decline worth these days?

Re:What did they steal?

[girlintraining]

How much are the secrets of going into a surprisingly steep decline worth these days?

Considering the expansive definition of what a "trade secret" is these days, it could be grandma's tuna cassarole recipe that the secretary shared. Afterall, maybe someone decided to make a restaurant based on it, and thus it was supposed to be a secret recipe and... you know, the recipe was actually a wiccan spell to summon the lesser demon of stupidity; Litigatus.

Run for your lives

[gmuslera]

Any person that work for a non US company storing in the "cloud" internal data (even if is sending a presentation in a private mail, or talking about it in skype) is in fact leaking trade secrets, and probably being target for jail with this kind of ruling. Browsing in social sites from a machine or in the open internet in general holding whatever could be seen as trade secret is risky at the very least.

Re:Them names.

[Jmc23]

Same parent? Don't be ridiculous.

It's just coincidence that all were fathered by their sons traveling back in time.