The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | September 21, 2017:
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday hackers broke into its electronic document storage system last year.
The hackers may have traded on information they found, the SEC said. SEC chairman Jay Clayton issued a long statement Wednesday about the SEC’s cybersecurity.
He said the hack exploited a software weakness in Edgar – the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system.
The agency patched the vulnerability and is still investigating the source of the hack.
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