Friday, February 8, 2019
Volume:
35
Issue:
2
Abstract:
Federal authorities have filed charges against eight individuals, several of whom are of Russian or Ukrainian nationality, for hacking into a government database as part of an illegal trading scheme. In a civil complaint filed on January 15, 2019, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleges that some of the defendants employed a “variety of deceptive means” to gain access to thousands of nonpublic documents from the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system (EDGAR).