Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers
It was a symbiotic relationship that brought together the underbelly of Wall Street and the dark reaches of the online world. From their suburban homes in the United States, dozens of rogue stock traders would send overseas hackers a shopping list of corporate news releases they wanted to get a sneak peek at before they were made public. The hackers, working from Ukraine, would then deliver how-to videos by email with instructions for gaining access to the pilfered earnings releases.
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