At first blush, the email appeared to be from Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of Nissan Motor Co. and then an Alcoa Inc. board member.
But Mr. Ghosn’s name was slightly misspelled, and the attachment, billed as the agenda to a 2008 shareholders’ meeting, actually held a computer virus that allowed Chinese hackers to allegedly steal nearly 3,000 emails, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.
The indictment makes the…