The Securities & Exchange Commission has disclosed that hackers penetrated its electronic system for storing public-company filings last year and may have traded on the information.
The SEC said it was investigating the source of the hack, which exploited a software vulnerability in a part of the agency’s Edgar system, a comprehensive database of filings made by thousands of public companies and other financial firms regulated by the SEC.
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