SEC Hacked by Russians and Ukrainians
Federal authorities have brought civil and criminal actions related to a cyberattack on the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Washington Post reports: [T]he Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that the defendants launched a sophisticated cyberattack against the agency starting in 2016. Once they penetrated the SEC’s system, the hackers stole thousands of documents with sensitive, confidential information about corporations' financial conditions. They used that information to make a profit from illegal trading, prosecutors said. The indictment provides the details on what a sophisticated cyberattack includes: 7. It was further part of the conspiracy that the defendants and others employed phishing [...]