CEO of Konnech, the China-linked software company allegedly behind 'largest data breach in United States history,' hit with another criminal charge

Eugene Yu, the 51-year-old CEO of the Michigan-based election software company Konnech, has been criminally charged again, this time for grand theft by embezzlement. Yu is said to have "fraudulently appropriated public funds" while a contractor for Los Angeles County. The felony complaint filed in the Superior Court of State of California for the County of Los Angeles alleged that the "funds amounted to $2,645,000 plus the as yet undetermined value of the personal identifying information," which Konnech stored on servers in China.-- More...