Editing BAE Systems (section)

===Espionage===
In September 2003 ''The Sunday Times'' reported that BAE Systems had hired a private security contractor to collect information about individuals working at [[Campaign Against Arms Trade|CAAT]] and their activities.<ref>{{Cite news |title= How the woman at No 27 ran spy network for an arms firm |work=The Sunday Times |location=UK |publisher=Times Newspapers |page= 10 |date= 28 September 2003 <!--|access-date=28 November 2006-->}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Mark |last=Thomas |title=Martin and me |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/04/bae.armstrade |work=The Guardian |location=London |publisher=Guardian Newspapers |date=4 December 2007 |access-date=4 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901074033/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/04/bae.armstrade |archive-date=1 September 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> In February 2007, it was reported that the corporation had again obtained private confidential information from CAAT.<ref>{{Cite news |first=George |last=Monbiot |title=The parallel universe of BAE: covert, dangerous and beyond the rule of law |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/feb/13/bae.foreignpolicy |work=The Guardian |location=London |publisher=Guardian Newspapers |date=13 February 2007 |access-date=4 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831013507/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/feb/13/bae.foreignpolicy |archive-date=31 August 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The company was reported in 2012 to have been the target of Chinese [[cyber espionage]] that may have stolen secrets related to the F-35 Lightning II.<ref>{{cite news |date=12 March 2012 |title=Security experts admit China stole secret fighter jet plans |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/security-experts-admit-china-stole-secret-fighter-jet-plans/story-fnb64oi6-1226296400154 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311221825/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/security-experts-admit-china-stole-secret-fighter-jet-plans/story-fnb64oi6-1226296400154 |archive-date=11 March 2012 |access-date=11 March 2012 |publisher=The Australian}}</ref>

In 2020 former employee Simon Finch, who became disillusioned when his reports of homophobic attacks in 2013 were not investigated properly, was convicted of a breach of the [[Official Secrets Act]], after "recording from memory highly sensitive details of a UK missile system."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54877968|title=Simon Finch: Defence worker admits Officials Secrets Act breach|work=BBC News |date=9 November 2020}}</ref> In November 2020 he was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/former-defence-worker-jailed-for-longer-after-breaching-officials-secrets-act|title=Former defence worker jailed for longer after breaching Officials Secrets Act|website=GOV.UK}}</ref>