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SEC Sues Firm for Hacking Company News Releases
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:08:03 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Reuters. [snip] U.S. regulators sued an overseas company and its owner on Monday, alleging they hacked into computer systems to get corporate news releases early and traded on that information, making a profit of $2.7 million. The Securities and Exchange Commission, in the lawsuit, accused Blue Bottle Ltd. of using the information it received to trade in securities of at least 12 U.S. companies, including AllianceBernstein Holding LP and Symantec Corp. [snip] More: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid= 2007-02-26T195447Z_01_N26291469_RTRUKOC_0_US-BLUEBOTTLE-SEC.xml - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF40wtq1pz9mNUZTMRArU/AKDTuroj8bcOuGQj9vzvuUSYxcsHIgCg6yPa uZCSmFhGuagZKw/hiTo+koI= =KEej -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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