U.S. Files Charges against Russian, Ukrainian Defendants for Role in Illegal Trading Scheme

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).