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The United States Justice Department today indicted three Chinese nationals for hacking American corporations, including Moody’s Analytics and Siemens AG, for commercial advantages.

Federal prosecutors alleged that Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei conspired to hack private corporate entities to maintain unauthorized access to and steal sensitive internal documents and communications from computers of those entities.The Department of Justice said that the defendants targeted and stole between December 2015 and March 2016 contained trade secrets. The three are not in custody and it is not clear if they are still in China.