Arrested in late 2015. On suspicion of the theft of the source code of the IBM clustered file system, now the former employee of the company Xu Jiajiang admitted his crimes.

Theft in the national interest.

A former employee of IBM pleaded guilty to economic espionage and the theft of commercial secrets associated with the development of the company - a clustered file system that IBM sells to customers around the world. According to Fortune, referring to the information of the US Department of Justice, 31-year-old Xu Jiaqiang admitted that he stole IBM secrets from 2010. To 2014 g. "In the interest of the National Commission for Health and Family Planning Commission of the PRC".

The Ministry of Justice explained that the accused "tried to sell the secret source code to IBM FBI agents who pretended to be representatives of a technology company". Whom were the proceeds from selling the secrets to the Chinese treasury or personally to Jiajiang, also not explained.

Jiajian was arrested in December 2015. He is expected to be sentenced on October 13, 2017. Advocates of the accused do not comment on the ongoing process.

Code Masking.

Recall, among the developments of IBM is a common parallel file system (General Parallel File System, GPFS). GPFS differs from other clustered file systems in the ability to simultaneously provide high-speed file access for applications running on multiple cluster nodes running AIX 5L, Linux operating systems or a heterogeneous cluster of nodes on AIX, Linux, and Windows.

The publication does not say whether this system was the object of espionage Xu Jiajian. Part of the cited charges indicates that Jiajian stole a technology "software that speeds up the PC through the load sharing between multiple servers". The employee admitted that theoretical buyers could easily find out that the code was stolen from IBM, so he created an additional script that masks the stolen and hiding source.

Other thefts in favor of China.

Journalists point out that the Jianjiang process is not the first time that Chinese experts accused of economic espionage against American companies. In 2014 year. The US Justice Department charged five hackers from the PRC allegedly stealing secrets from US developers working in the field of nuclear and solar energy.

At the end of last year, three more Chinese experts were charged with suspicion of hacking computers of three American law firms to obtain insider information.