In the first federal criminal case in Los Angeles involving the theft of trade secrets, a Los Angeles man was indicted today on three felony counts for allegedly stealing sensitive information belonging to satellite entertainment provider DirecTV.
The indictment, which was returned this afternoon by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, charges that Igor Serebryany, a 19-year-old student at the University of Chicago, stole trade secrets pertaining to DirecTV's latest and most sophisticated conditional access card, the "Period 4" access card.
The trade secrets were stolen from the law offices of DirecTV's legal counsel, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue in Los Angeles. DirecTV had provided this information to Jones Day in connection with civil
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