Some hacking of financial markets and networks will target informational systems surrounding those networks. For example, in 2015, the SEC indicted two Ukrainian hackers who broke into Business Wire and PRNewswire’s networks and stole more than 100,000 unreleased press releases for publicly traded companies. These were then distributed to a network of traders, who used the advance knowledge to place informed bets on the authoring companies’ stocks, much like an insider trading scheme.
