U.S. Indicts Three Alleged Chinese Hackers

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.

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,...