$3.75 million made trading shares on hacked executive emails
A British man was charged in the US with hacking corporate executives' email accounts, using the information for share trades and making $3.75 million in profits. He is also accused of using genealogy websites to hack the accounts. The FBI and Mandiant were involved in tracking him, and it emerged that he had tried to fake his own death.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- $3.75 million in illegal share trading profits
- Cause / method
- Hacking of corporate executives' email accounts using genealogy websites
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- The US charged a British man with using information obtained through hacking for share trades.
- Allegations emerged that the defendant used genealogy websites to hack corporate executives' email accounts.
- The $3.75 million in trading profits and how the FBI and Mandiant tracked him came to light.
4 related reports
- US charges British man over 'hack-to-trade' scheme
- A UK man allegedly used genealogy sites to hack execs’ email accounts and make millions on stock trades
- U.K. Hacker Charged in $3.75 Million Insider Trading Scheme Using Hacked Executive Emails
- How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death
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