Continued cyber-attacks on the United States may soon be met with trade or diplomatic punishment against the nations of origin. The Obama administration last week listed more than a dozen instances of international assaults against U.S. businesses, resulting in stolen trade secrets, blunted competitive edge and lost American jobs.
“There are only two categories of companies affected by trade-secret theft: those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t know it yet,” U.S....