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Six Chinese nationals were indicted in 2013 on charges of conspiring to steal trade secrets from several U.s.-based seed manufacturers.

Five Chinese military officers were indicted in 2014 on charges of hacking the computers of U.S. companies and a trade union to obtain trade secrets. They remain at large.

A Chinese businessman was charged in 2014 with hacking into Boeing’s computers to steal information about U.S. military aircraft and systems.

A 62-year-old former employee of PPG Industries, a supplier of manufacturing materials, was charged in May 2015 with stealing the company’s secrets and passing them to a glass company in China. He killed himself a month later.

Six Chinese citizens, including two university professors, were charged in May 2015 with stealing sensitive mobile phone technology from two U.S. companies and sharing it with the Chinese government.