Chinese spies steel trade secrets Dutch techfirma ASML: Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage

Chinese spies have large-scale trade secrets stolen from the Dutch chipmachinemaker ASML. That confirms the company after an article in The Financieele Dagblad. According to the newspaper, the perpetrators of senior R&D staff of the company, who has indirect ties to the Chinese ministry of Science and Technology.

ASML says the spy himself to have discovered, and legal steps have been taken. According to the company found the spy place at a branch in Silicon Valley, where software for the machines is written. The company emphasizes that there is no blueprint is captured for the making of a lithography machine, a machine which is used for making microchips. the

so There is no danger that the Chinese within a short time the machines of ASML is able to copy. The company set up simply to be able to continue to trade with China.

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According to the FD is a damage of a few hundreds of millions of euros to be the greatest spy ever by a Dutch company. the

The Chinese spies would ASML employees for years have had access to the internal networks in the establishment in the U.s. San Jose, and were source codes, software, pricing strategies, and secret guides loot.