One of the Nvidia Engineers, who was working in the offices of French automaker Valeo, inadvertently revealed a source code, while on a meeting between the two companies. Valeo was quick to take a screen grab of the same and now, it looks like the matter has escalated. Just to put things into perspective, Valeo and Nvidia are currently working on an advanced parking and driving assistance technology offered by a manufacturer to its customers. Earlier, Valeo was repsonsible for the development of the hardware and the software for the various manufacturers.
But, in 2021, the bigger organisation won the contract to develop the software for the driver assistance system. In their lawsuit, Valeo has put down, what they believe happened. The engineer in question, granteed his personal email, full access to Valeo’s database and proceeded to steal “tens of thousands of files” and 6GB of source code, and then, he took the stolen data and moved to Nvidia, where he was offered a senior position.
