South Korean authorities are investigating whether a software engineer with links to North Korea stole government data and passed it to the country, according to several reports from Seoul.

The reports say the man allegedly stole information between 2005 and 2010 while working for a computer company tasked with developing software and systems for the South Korean government, reported The Associated Press from Seoul.

The man, who has not been identified, was convicted in 2002 of posting pro-North Korean information on websites, said the AP.

Despite that conviction, he was allowed to join a project working on the Korean Joint Command and Control More >