SEC aide quits after leak to Chinese
An employee of the Securities and Exchange Commission was forced to resign after it was discovered she had sent sensitive data on American computer companies to China in what U.S. officials say may be a case of economic espionage, The Washington Times has learned.
Mylene Chan, a computer and online-service analyst with the SEC for 10 months, left the commission in July after co-workers discovered she had compromised sensitive information by sending it to Shanghai, said U.S. government officials close to the case.
"She was clearly expropriating things from the commission that weren't hers Ñ things that were not public information and that would cause competitive harm to the companies involved," one official close to the case said.
The case was covered up by the SEC and never reported to the FBI as a case of economic espionage, the officials said. ...more at link above
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