CME code stolen

摘要

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Chunlai Yang, a senior software engineer for CME Group, in July on charges of theft of trade secrets after CME Group alerted the FBI that a crime may have been committed. Yang is a naturalized U.S. citizen and Chinese national who has worked at CME Group since 2000. According to the complaint, CME security began monitoring Yang's activity in May and discovered he downloaded to his work computer thousands of files of source code and algorithms protected by CME's Clear Case security system. Yang then downloaded some of those files to multiple flash drives. The complaint states that some of these files included trade secrets that Yang had no need to access to fulfill his job functions.