It comes just two weeks after the credit agency Equifax revealed a stunning cyberattack that exposed highly sensitive personal information of 143 million people.Ĭlayton is scheduled to appear Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee, and he is certain to be questioned about the hack. The confidential information was said to be linked to clients of the firm considering mergers or acquisitions.Ĭlayton disclosed the hack in a statement posted to the SEC’s website.
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The SEC filed a similar civil action, marking the first time the agency laid charges of hacking into a law firm’s computer network. prosecutors in Manhattan brought criminal charges last December against three Chinese traders, accusing them of using nonpublic information stolen from two New York law firms to rack up nearly $3 million in illegal profits. Still, he added, the list also would include “regular old criminal actors.” “Certainly state actors would be on the list of suspects that come to mind,” said Marcus Christian, a former federal prosecutor who is an attorney working in Mayer Brown’s cybersecurity and national security practices. A hack by Chinese or Russian actors can’t be ruled out, experts say. The agency also didn’t disclose any information about who might have carried out the breach.
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The disclosure came two months after a government watchdog said deficiencies in the corporate filing system put the system, and the information it contains, at risk. The SEC didn’t explain why the initial hack was not revealed sooner, or which individuals or companies may have been affected. “The integrity of our whole trading system is dependent on keeping this information secure.
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“It took quite a while,” said Robert Cattanach, an attorney at Dorsey & Whitney and former trial attorney for the Justice Department, whose work includes cybersecurity and data breaches.