"A little while later, their product started being returned to the factory because they were broken," he said.
"When they opened their branded products, they discovered they weren't their branded products, because the components were inferior, they were exact knock-offs."
The problem was eventually traced to an international conference, where someone had offered to share information with one of the company's employees by plugging a USB into their laptop.
"That USB downloaded malware onto that laptop, which later on, when they were connected back to their corporate network, was used to steal their intellectual property," he said.
"That intellectual property was passed from the intelligence services to state-owned enterprise that mass-produced the goods and sold them on the market that undercut them." more
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