SEC Brings Charges in EDGAR Hacking Case
On January 15th, the SEC announced charges against nine defendants for participation in a previously disclosed scheme to hack into the EDGAR system for the purposes of illegal trading. Included in the defendants were a Ukranian hacker and six individual traders in California, Ukraine, and Russia. There were also two entities charged. The hacker and some of the traders were involved in a similar scheme to hack into newswire services to trade on information not yet publicly available. As a result of those activities, the hacker and his conspirators were charged in 2015.
Posted: January 17, 2019 4:28 pm by The Novaworks Team in SEC News
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XBRL US Data Quality Releases Eighth Ruleset for Comment
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XBRL US Data Quality Committee Approves Seventh Ruleset
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