US charged 3 Chinese security firm hackers with corporate cyber-espionage

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The Department of Justice charged three Chinese nationals working for an internet security firm in China with hacking three companies and stealing hundreds of gigabytes of data and trade secrets from Siemens AG, Moody’s Analytics and GPS maker Trimble between early 2011 and May 2017. Both the malware and the organization to which defendants Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei belonged have previously been linked to the Chinese government.

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