U.S. Steel has accused Chinese government hackers of stealing its trade secrets and sharing them with Chinese producers, and has urged authorities to ban Chinese imports of advanced steel.
In a petition to the US International Trade Commission (ITC), US Steel said that in an attack in 2011 it had lost several gigabytes of valuable research data related to its production of advanced high-strength steel. Hackers targeted a researcher’s files for a hot-dip simulator which the company used to develop and improve production techniques for so-called dual-phased steels of interest to car makers.
The hack imitated methods used in an earlier attack by the Chinese government and was traced back to internet addresses linked to Chinese hackers, the company said in its submission.
US Steel says it spent millions of dollars researching and developing advanced steels over the last decade, including the chemistries and processes for manufacturing and coating products of keen interest to carmakers eager to improve fuel economy by using less metal to lighten their cars while still maintaining strength. Following the hack of one of the company’s well-known senior researchers, Chinese producers had brought their own version of these advanced steels to market within two years, says US Steel.
“Some of the [accused producers] have used valuable trade secrets stolen from US Steel to produce advanced high-strength steel that no Chinese manufacturer had been able to commercialise before the theft,” the company said in its filing.
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