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Hack of U.S. securities regulator rattles investors, stirs doubts
Reuters ^
| September 21, 2017
| by Sarah N. Lynch, Jonathan Spicer
Posted on 09/21/2017 10:48:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Wall Streets top regulator faced questions on Thursday about its defenses against cyber criminals after admitting hackers breached its electronic database of corporate announcements and may have used it for insider trading.
The incursion at the Securities and Exchange Commission struck at the heart of the U.S. financial system. The SECs EDGAR filing system is the central repository for market-moving information on corporate America with millions of filings ranging from quarterly earnings to statements on acquisitions.
Accessing documents before they are released publicly would offer hackers a lucrative opportunity to trade on that information.
The SEC has said it was investigating the source of the hack but it did not say when exactly it happened or what sort of non-public data was retrieved. The agency said the attackers had exploited a weakness in part of the EDGAR system and it had promptly fixed it.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016; cyberattack; cybersecurity; cyberthreat; edgar; edgarsystem; hack; hoddgman; hodgman; markwarner; maryjowhite; melissahodgman; nationalsecurity; peterstrzok; sec; sechacked; stockmarket; strzok; warner
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Equifax was a government (they didn’t say which) perpetrated breach. I am going to guess this one is some government agency looking for some side income.
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09/21/2017 3:20:59 PM PDT
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Melissa Hodgman, Peter Strzoks Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know 12/5/2017 11:50:42 AM · by PJ-Comix · 30 replies Heavy.Com ^ | December 5, 2017 Peter Strzok, the top FBI agent under fire for allegedly sending anti-Donald Trump texts, is married to Melissa Hodgman, an official at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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12/17/2017 6:28:44 PM PST
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piasa
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Melissa Hodgman, Peter Strzoks Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Heavy.Com ^ | December 5, 2017 Peter Strzok, the top FBI agent under fire for allegedly sending anti-Donald Trump texts, is married to Melissa Hodgman, an official at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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12/17/2017 6:30:04 PM PST
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piasa
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The breach occurred in 2016:
SEC Commissioners did not learn of the breach until recently. In a statement, Republican SEC Commissioner Mike Piwowar, who for part of 2017 also served as acting chairman, said he was recently informed for the first time that an intrusion occurred in 2016.
And guess who is on the banking committee ...Senator Mark Warner. He rings a bell.
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05/06/2018 1:22:05 PM PDT
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piasa
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Warners being fed info by former Feinstein aide Daniel Jones whose attack is funded by 10 wealthy Democrat donors out of NY and Silicon Valley, according to Michael Caputo.
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05/06/2018 1:30:05 PM PDT
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piasa
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