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Cybersecurity Falls Short In September
Security & Fraud // October 02, 2017

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....

SEC Chairman Peppered With Cybersecurity Questions By Congress
Security & Fraud // 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 he thinks his predecessor, Mary Jo White, had no knowledge of the data breach that...

DHS Says SEC Computers Have Five Critical Cyber Security Weaknesses
Security & Fraud // 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 report issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the news service reported the...

SEC Reveals EDGAR Database Was Hacked
Security & Fraud // September 22, 2017

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission faced criticism Thursday (Sept. 21) over its cybersecurity practices and disclosures after it revealed its EDGAR database for corporate filings was hacked last year and could have been used for insider trading. According to a report in Reuters, the...

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Ukraine Hacker, Others Charged In Hacking SEC’s EDGAR Database

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 Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database. According to a report in Reuters citing a 16-count indictment filed with the U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, the Ukrainian […]

SEC Chairman Peppered With Cybersecurity Questions By Congress

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...

DHS Says SEC Computers Have Five Critical Cyber Security Weaknesses

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...