An unnamed Chinese hacker uses a computer at an office in Dongguan, in China’s southern Guangdong Province, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images
A federal judge in Ohio sentenced a Chinese national to four years in prison on Aug. 21 for sabotaging his former employer’s network with malicious computer code, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Davis Lu, 55, a legal resident in Houston, was convicted by a Cleveland jury of causing intentional damage to protected computers in March. According to a sentencing memorandum filed by prosecutors in early August, the victim is the Ohio-based power management company Eaton Corp., where Lu worked as a computer programmer between 2007 and 2019.
