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ESSEX JUNCTION, VT—Production was temporarily halted at GlobalFoundries’ microchip factory here after a computer virus was uploaded to some manufacturing tools.
AMSTERDAM—Renault-Nissan said on Monday that output had returned to normal at nearly all its assembly plants, after a global cyber attack caused widespread disruption, including stoppages at several of the auto alliance’s sites.
SEATTLE—A Chinese citizen was charged with plotting to steal data from U.S. defense contractors, including a successful hack of Boeing’s computer system, amid an expanding crackdown on industrial espionage by China.
SAO PAULO—Thieves raided a Samsung electronics assembly plant here during the night shift early Monday, subduing workers and guards, and making off with at least $6 million worth of cell phones and computers.
GREENSBURG, IN—A bomb threat scrawled on a bathroom wall at an auto parts assembly plant here drew the attention of police and fire crews Friday afternoon.
BRIDGEPORT, CT—A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to stealing 111 firearms from Smith & Wesson’s gun assembly plant here while working as a delivery truck driver.
COLUMBUS, OH—Kerry Ketchem, 62, an automotive engineer, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on three counts of felony theft involving a scheme to steal catalytic converters from an assembly plant.
BOWLING GREEN, KY—A bomb threat temporarily shut down True Manufacturing’s assembly plant here Friday. No bomb was found and no one was injured at the facility, which makes commercial refrigeration equipment.