The US has charged five Chinese army officers with hacking into private-sector American companies to gain advantage. This is the first cyber-espionage case of this kind. These breaches, according to Attorney General Eric Holder, are "significant" and need some sort of "an aggressive response". The prosecutors say the officers stole trade secrets and internal documents from five companies, and a trade union. The US and China have sparred over these cyber attacks before. The men that were charged are the first known "actors for infiltrating U.S. commercial targets by cyber means". The targeted companies were Westinghouse Electric, US Steel, Alcoa Inc, Allegheny Technologies, Solar World and the US Steelworkers Union. There seems to be no known motive for this hacking other than to advantage over the state-owned companies.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27475324
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