For serious breaches against six american victim companies. These represent the firstever charges against state actors for crimes committed by cyber means. These five chinese officers conspired together and with others to hack into computers of organizations in the western pennsylvania and elsewhere in the United States. This is a case of economic espionage by the chinese military. The range of trade secrets and other Sensitive Information stolen in this case is significant and demand an aggressive response. For more on this, we can now cross to our correspondent in washington, philip crowder. What more can you tell us about this case . It all comes from an investigation. The department of justice put posters ofvoters these five accused chinese officials. They have been wanted and shamed by the government. Espionage,ch of meaning decades in prison if ever they were to come to the United States. That is very unlikely, indeed. The stand accused by department of justice of hacking into th