unorthodox fundraising Yandex employee stole search engine source code, tried to sell it for just £27,000 Dmitry Korobov has received a suspended sentence of two years in jail.

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An employee of Russia's Internet giant Yandex, Dmitry Korobov, stole the source code of its search engine and tried to sell it on the black market to fund his own startup, according to a report by ...