Insider trading ring hired 'Ukrainian hackers to scoop stock market'

The FBI says it has cracked open an insider-trading ring which employed Ukrainian hackers to pinch corporate announcements from news wires and then traded stocks based on the unreleased information. Nine men have been named in a pair of indictments filed in New York and New Jersey. Five of the nine were arrested in a series of …

[Your alien overlord - fear me]

They did that on The Hustle years ago. Good to see the Beeb giving crooks ideas :-)

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, Hustle.

I'm just working through the whole 8 series again :).

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, please arrest those crooks ..

.. Wall Street hates competition.

[Chozo]

"allegedly infiltrated the computer servers of PRNewswire Association LLC, Marketwired and Business Wire"

This sounds awfully familiar and wonder did they actually compromise a server or just twiddle the URL to reveal unreleased information... again

https://youtu.be/SIMF8bp5-qg?t=45m54s