This is the best summary I could come up with:
If you’ve ever embarrassed yourself by publicly sharing a part of your screen you weren’t supposed to, spare a thought for Mohammad Moniruzzaman, who’s alleged to have shown off the source code he stole from a former employer during a Microsoft Teams call with that same company.
This alleged theft came to light in March the following year, when employees from both Nvidia and Valeo were on a call together working on a joint parking assistance project for an unnamed automotive parts maker.
Nvidia had won the contract to develop software on the project, while Valeo was providing ultrasonic sensor hardware.
The lawsuit goes on to state that German police “discovered Valeo documentation and hardware pinned on the walls of Mr. Moniruzzaman’s home office” when they raided his home as part of a criminal investigation, and that Valeo’s software and documents were found on his Nvidia computer when it was seized by investigators.
Bloomberg notes that Moniruzzaman was convicted of infringing Valeo’s business secrets in Germany in September and fined €14,400 ($15,724).
As a result, Valeo is seeking damages and an injunction to stop Nvidia and its employees from using or sharing its trade secrets.
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I am curious on why he was searched at all.
Probably the screenshot.
Yeah, but how did they find out about the screenshot.
He’s an idiot. He was screen sharing during a joint project with his former employer (Valeo) and had the stolen code behind the powerpoint, that was then minimized or closed, it even was in a dir called ‘valeoCode’ or something like that
shown off the source code he stole from a former employer during a Microsoft Teams call with that same company.
Edit: He showed his previous employer their source code while working at Nvidia. The former employer took screenshots, and sued.
Oh ok, understood now.
And if the code was merged into Nvidia’s database after “extensive edits and feedback loops by other employees,” then Valeo says it’s “unrealistic” to think it could ever be fully removed.
This also is the reason why people should be careful with copilot or similar code assistance systems until the first major AI copyright lawsuits are settled. If those don’t swing in favour of AI people using those tools risk losing their codebase.
