Rapper Eminem said "significant damage was caused" and his team is "appreciative" after his former longtime employee was charged with leaking his unreleased music online.

A former sound engineer for award-winning rapper Eminem—also known as Marshall Mathers—was charged on Wednesday with stealing the rapper’s unreleased music and selling it for Bitcoin, according to federal prosecutors.

A former Eminem studio engineer was charged Wednesday with stealing the Detroit rapper’s unreleased music and selling it online, federal prosecutors announced.