U.S. authorities charged a hacker residing in Ukraine and several others on Tuesday (Jan. 15) with trading on non-public corporate earnings information they got by hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database. According to a report in Reuters citing a 16-count indictment filed...
Since Sept. 7, the media has been abuzz over the security breach at credit scoring company Equifax and the vast number of consequences the incident set in motion, from the resignation of the company’s CEO to lawsuits filed by state Attorneys General across the U.S....
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, who was recently interrogated in a Senate hearing over a cyberattack of the government agency’s EDGAR database for corporate filings, said he thinks his predecessor, Mary Jo White, had no knowledge of the data breach that...
It turns out even the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) computers aren’t super secure, even following a breach last year, according to a report in Reuters. Citing a confidential weekly report issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the news service reported the...
October 20, 2025
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s corporate filings database, EDGAR, reportedly suffered “intermittent issues” on Monday (Oct. 20), making this financial information only sporadically available. According to a Monday Bloomberg report, the SEC announced the issue on its website. “Intermittent issues are preventing the display of disseminated filings on SEC.gov,” the notice said, per the report, […]
January 15, 2019
U.S. authorities charged a hacker residing in Ukraine and several others on Tuesday (Jan. 15) with trading on non-public corporate earnings information they got by hacking the U.S. Securities and...
September 27, 2017
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, who was recently interrogated in a Senate hearing over a cyberattack of the government agency’s EDGAR database for corporate filings, said...
September 22, 2017
It turns out even the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) computers aren’t super secure, even following a breach last year, according to a report in Reuters. Citing a confidential weekly...