CRIME/CYBERWAR/LEGAL: “Three Chinese people have been indicted in the U.S. for allegedly hacking into the email account of a Moody’s Analytics economist and stealing confidential business information from German electrical engineering giant Siemens AG , according to an indictment unsealed Monday [11-27-17].
The hackers targeted an unnamed ‘influential economist’ at Moody’s and forwarded the economist’s emails to themselves beginning in 2011, court papers said. The indictment alleges that the economist, who isn’t identified by name but is described in detail, was the victim of a scheme in which all of his incoming emails were forwarded beginning no later than 2011 to an email account that was then accessed by one of the defendants.
The indictment provides numerous details about the economist in question, and they closely match the background of Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi. Mr. Zandi declined to comment and referred questions Monday to a Moody’s spokesman, who declined to comment on its economist.”
-Aruna Viswanatha, Robert McMillan, and Nick Timiraos, “U.S. Indicts Three Chinese for Alleged Cyberattacks on Moody’s, Siemens,” The Wall Street Journal online, Nov. 27, 2017 07:36pm