FBI: Employee Passed Chicago Mercantile Exchange Secrets to China

A 10 year employee of CME Group in Chicago is alleged to have stolen trade secrets and proprietary source code used to run trading systems for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Illinois. The complaint, dated June 30, 2011 and signed...

Xiaodong Sheldon Meng (Quantum3D)

Meng was a 44 year-old software engineer living in Cupertino, California when, in 2008, he became the first person sentenced for a violation of the U.S.’s Economic Epionage Act of 1996. Meng had worked as an engineer for Quantum3D, a defense contractor that makes visual simulation software used f...