32 Charged Over 'Insider Trading Hack' Scheme

Aug 11, 2015, 06:21 PM

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It appears to be an audacious but some might say simple way of manipulating the markets. The hackers are accused of breaking into computers belonging to corporate firms that put out press releases about company results. According to prosecutors, the hackers worked with securities traders in the US to make $30m by trading on the information before it was made public. The BBC's business correspondent, Samira Hussain, reports from New York.