U.S. Steel was a victim of hacking in 2010 amidst trade cases against Chinese companies, with hackers stealing critical information

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U.S. Steel was a victim of hacking in 2010 amidst trade cases against Chinese companies, with hackers stealing critical information

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"Three days later, Wang stole hostnames and descriptions of U.S. Steel computers... Wang thereafter took steps to identify and exploit vulnerable servers on that list."
"In 2010, U.S. Steel was participating in trade cases with Chinese steel companies... Sun sent spearphishing e-mails to U.S. Steel employees... Some of these e-mails resulted in the installation of malware on U.S. Steel computers."

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Cybersecurity tensions rise with US accusations of Chinese hacking and IP theft.