Three Chinese hackers have been ordered to pay $8.8m (£6.8m) over a multi-million dollar insider trading scam.The US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) said Iat Hong, 26, Bo Zheng, 30, and Hung Chin, 50, breached the websites of US law firms and accessed confidential information about mergers and acquisitions.They then used this information to profit on the stock market.The men, who have not been extradited, were fined in their absence.Cyber-criminals ’hacked law firms’Deutsche Boerse chief executive in insider trading probeAccording to the SEC, whoch charged the men in December, they racked up almost $3m (£2.3m) in illegal profits by hacking two prominent New York law firms.
Källa: Chinese hackers must pay $9m over insider trading scam – BBC News
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