SEC Reveals It Was Hacked, Information May Have Been Used for Illegal Stock Trades

The Securities and Exchange Commission, the country’s top Wall Street regulator, announced Wednesday that hackers breached its system for storing documents filed by publicly traded companies last year, potentially accessing data that allowed the intruders to make an illegal profit.

"SEC Reveals It Was Hacked, Information May Have Been Used for Illegal Stock Trades" is from the September 20, 2017 Business section of The Washington Post. It was written by Renae Merle and narrated by Sam Scholl.