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James Robert Liang (Volkswagen / Dieselgate engineer)INS-LIANG-VW-2017 insider
🇩🇪 DE
aka James Liang
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0attributed CVEs
0ATT&CK techniques
0.0IDF score (tooling uniqueness)
0exclusive CVEs
—years active
About this actor
Long-serving Volkswagen engine engineer who pleaded guilty in 2016 and was sentenced in August 2017 to 40 months in US federal prison for conspiracy to defraud regulators and customers by helping to design and conceal the diesel-emissions defeat device. He was the first VW insider sentenced in the Dieselgate criminal track.
How we know this
- Data origin
- Curated overlay Insider-threat entry synthesised from public reporting and court filings — not a MITRE-tracked intrusion set.
- Techniques
- No ATT&CK techniques mapped.
- Named victims
- 1 extracted from reporting.
Thin data: No ATT&CK techniques are mapped yet — the behavioural profile is empty. Only one named victim is on file.
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Activity timeline
No activity events recorded.
Profile
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No techniques attributed.
Co-occurring actors
None.