{"id":100696,"date":"2025-08-22T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100696\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:23:07","slug":"chinese-national-gets-4-years-in-federal-prison-for-sabotaging-eaton-corp-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/100696\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese national gets 4 years in federal prison for sabotaging Eaton Corp. computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"GRUE5N47U5C7ZNYD35D6RDLSPY\">CLEVELAND, Ohio &#8211; A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/court-justice\/2025\/03\/former-eaton-corp-employee-found-guilty-of-sabotaging-companys-computer-systems.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/court-justice\/2025\/03\/former-eaton-corp-employee-found-guilty-of-sabotaging-companys-computer-systems.html\">employee of Eaton Corp.<\/a> was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison for sabotaging Eaton Corp.\u2019s computer systems after he was effectively demoted in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HBHKEW254NHRFIMHHK6T3TFEZU\">Davis Lu, 55, a Chinese national, also faces potential deportation as a result of his conviction. He was found guilty in March of one count of causing intentional damage to protected computers &#8211; causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses &#8211; following a six-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Pamela Barker.<\/p>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio &#8211; A former employee of Eaton Corp. was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-100696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}