Reported Bill Gertz of The Washington Times (Nov. 11), Mylene Chen, an employee of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned after it was discovered she had sent sensitive data
on American computer companies to China in what U.S. officials say may be a case of economic
espionage. Mylene Chan, 28, a computer and online-service analyst with the SEC for 10 months,
left the commission on July 1 after co-workers discovered she had compromised sensitive
information by sending it to Shanghai. "She was clearly expropriating things from the commission
that weren't hers -- things that were not public information and that would cause competitive
harm to the companies involved," one official close to the case said. Miss Chan is a Chinese
national who graduated from Yale University in 1996 and George Washington University Law
School last year before being hired by the SEC.
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