A former employee of DJI has been sentenced to six months in prison and fined 200,000 yuan ($29,700) for leaking the Chinese drone company’s source code online, Southern Metropolis Daily reported Friday.

A court in the southern city of Shenzhen issued the verdict in early April against the unnamed man, who was charged with revealing trade secrets after he published code related to DJI’s agricultural drones on code-hosting platform GitHub.

In 2017, American security researcher Kevin Finisterre notified DJI that he had discovered the leaked code, as well as a bug in it that allowed access to images and flight logs stored on the company’s servers. DJI later called Finisterre a “hacker” for his efforts.

Last week, Chinese netizens found that source code containing usernames and passwords from Chinese video-streaming platform Bilibili had similarly been leaked on GitHub. Bilibili confirmed the authenticity of the leak but tried to assure users that it would not compromise their safety. (Image: IC)