CEO of election software firm held on ID info theft charges
Summary
Konnech Corporations Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested in Meridian Township in Michigan and held on suspicion of theft of personal identifying information, while computer hard drives and other "digital evidence" were seized by investigators from the county district attorneys office, according to the office. Konnech was required to keep the data in the United States and only provide access to citizens and permanent residents but instead stored it on servers in the Peoples Republic of China, the DAs office said. There wasnt any evidence that any election worker was bribed or extorted and an investigation was pending into whether any of the data went into inappropriate hands, the DAs office said. Konnech previously said that all the data for its American customers were stored on servers in the United States, the New York Times reported Monday. The paper reported that Konnech and Yu, who was born in China, became the target of claims by election conspiracy theorists that the company had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had supplied information on 2 million poll workers.