Largest theft by Trojan horse of commercial information

In November 2004, a gang of hackers originating in Guangdong Province, China (where hacking carries the death penalty), were suspected of using a "Trojan Horse" to steal sensitive documents from various high-level US government and military establishments. Targets included the US army's Aviation and Missile Command in Alabama, Information Systems Engineering Command in Arizona, the Defense Information Systems Agency, Naval Ocean System Center in San Diego, and the Space and Missile Defense Acquisition Center in Alabama. Secret plans for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter were among the stolen files. The thefts continue to this day. A Trojan horse ­or just simply "trojan" ­ is a piece of software usually disguised as an innocuous music or video file that, when downloaded and opened, affects your computer in a detrimental way, such as by adding spyware, deleting the harddrive, sending copies of your files to another location, and so on.