US Securities and Exchange Commission Hunting Insider Trading Hackers

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @07:55AM from the new-sheriff-in-town dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is actively investigating the FIN4 financial hacking group identified by FireEye last December, according to a Reuters report. In an unprecedented extension of its usual practice, the SEC is soliciting information about security breaches from private companies, who are not obliged to reveal them unless the breach enters into categories covered by federal law. Former SEC Head of Internet Enforcement John Reed Stark describes the proactive stance of the organization as an "absolute first."

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Has slashdot come to this .. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-06-23 08:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How did it come to this, that a once great tech mag is reduced to spamming the Internet with slashvertisments for the MICROS~1 corporation. Currently on the main page: 11 mentions of Windows and 05 mentions of Microsoft.