U.S. authorities charged a hacker residing in Ukraine and several others on Tuesday (Jan. 15) with trading on non-public corporate earnings information they got by hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Since Sept. 7, the media has been abuzz over the security breach at credit scoring company Equifax and the vast number of consequences the incident set in motion, from the resignation of the company’s CEO to lawsuits filed by state Attorneys General across the U.S....
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, who was recently interrogated in a Senate hearing over a cyberattack of the government agency’s EDGAR database for corporate filings, said he thinks his predecessor, Mary Jo White, had no knowledge of the data breach that...
It turns out even the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) computers aren’t super secure, even following a breach last year, according to a report in Reuters. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
October 20, 2025
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s corporate filings database, EDGAR, reportedly suffered “intermittent issues” on Monday (Oct. 20), making this financial information only sporadically available. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS […]
January 15, 2019
U.S. authorities charged a hacker residing in Ukraine and several others on Tuesday (Jan. 15) with trading on non-public corporate earnings information they got by hacking the U.S. Securities and...
September 27, 2017
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, who was recently interrogated in a Senate hearing over a cyberattack of the government agency’s EDGAR database for corporate filings, said...
September 22, 2017
It turns out even the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) computers aren’t super secure, even following a breach last year, according to a report in Reuters. Get the Full Story...
