FBI: Russian programmer has stolen stock secrets
Last week, the FBI carried out an operation to arrest Sergei Aleinikov, a programmer at Goldman Sachs. He is accused of stealing proprietary software source codes that his employer used for automated trading on stock and commodity exchanges. An American citizen of Russian descent was arrested on July 3 at Newark Airport in New Jersey.
As you know, modern trading on the stock exchange is mostly automated and carried out by computers. Knowledge of the secret algorithms that control these software systems theoretically allows you to manipulate stock quotes that threaten US national security, and the stability of the entire global economy. That is why the simple Russian programmer became interested in the FBI.
FBI specialists proved that Sergey copied 32 MB of data from the corporate network, and then erased traces of the deed from the logs. He did not consider only that the company makes backup copies of the logs, so the security system immediately signaled interference. To steal data, Aleinikov wrote a script that copied, compressed and renamed files, and then uploaded them to a German hosting website, which he registered anonymously (with a fake British address).
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Sergey Aleinikov had a salary of $ 400,000 a year in Goldman Sachs, which is quite high by American standards, he worked there since May 2007 and was engaged in the development of an automated trading system (which he tried to steal). Sergey left the company on June 5, and turned the above operation a few days before his dismissal. Interestingly, he quit on his own in connection with finding a job for a competitor (also developing software for stock trading, like umputun ), who promised a salary three times higher.
During the interrogation at the FBI, the arrested person said that he only wanted to copy the “open source” codes on which he himself worked, and accidentally accidentally copied other files as well.
via Wired
As you know, modern trading on the stock exchange is mostly automated and carried out by computers. Knowledge of the secret algorithms that control these software systems theoretically allows you to manipulate stock quotes that threaten US national security, and the stability of the entire global economy. That is why the simple Russian programmer became interested in the FBI.
FBI specialists proved that Sergey copied 32 MB of data from the corporate network, and then erased traces of the deed from the logs. He did not consider only that the company makes backup copies of the logs, so the security system immediately signaled interference. To steal data, Aleinikov wrote a script that copied, compressed and renamed files, and then uploaded them to a German hosting website, which he registered anonymously (with a fake British address).
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Sergey Aleinikov had a salary of $ 400,000 a year in Goldman Sachs, which is quite high by American standards, he worked there since May 2007 and was engaged in the development of an automated trading system (which he tried to steal). Sergey left the company on June 5, and turned the above operation a few days before his dismissal. Interestingly, he quit on his own in connection with finding a job for a competitor (also developing software for stock trading, like umputun ), who promised a salary three times higher.
During the interrogation at the FBI, the arrested person said that he only wanted to copy the “open source” codes on which he himself worked, and accidentally accidentally copied other files as well.
via Wired
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/63893/
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