Since the middle of last year, it is estimated that Intel has laid off about 35,000 employees in an effort to cut costs and streamline operations.
With such a large number of layoffs, it is no surprise that some employees are not happy about being fired. Recently, Intel was reported to be searching for a former employee who allegedly stole confidential company documents and disappeared.
The individual is Luo Jinfeng, who had been a software engineer at the company since 2014, but was sent a termination notice in early July. In short, after receiving the termination notice, he was found to have downloaded a number of company documents onto a laptop before sending them to his own storage browser.
Intel says that Luo was found to have started trying to download these documents just a few weeks before he was fired, and even though the company network initially wouldn’t allow him to download this data, he still managed to do it and downloaded more data before his last day.
Since then, Intel has tried to contact him, but all attempts, from sending emails to show cause letters and so on, have failed. In fact, Intel has not been able to contact him to this day, saying that it is as if he is no longer traceable.
There are questions about whether he has left the United States, but there is no evidence to prove whether this is true or not.
Intel is now reportedly trying to not only sue Luo Jinfeng for $250,000, but also for him to return all the stolen documents.
