US offers US$2mil bounty for Ukrainian SEC hackers


Two Ukranians were charged in a January 2019 indictment in New Jersey, the United States with breaking into SEC computers to steal thousands of corporate files, including unreleased quarterly and annual earnings reports. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: The US State Department and Secret Service offered US$2mil (RM8.5mil) in reward money on July 22 for help capturing two Ukrainians charged with hacking and selling valuable insider corporate information from the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The agencies offered a bounty of US$1mil (RM4.3mil) each for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Artem Viacheslavovich Radchenko and Oleksandr Vitalyevich Ieremenko on charges of international cybercrime.

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