Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton said late Wednesday that the agency learned in August that a cyber breach incident previously detected in 2016 involving its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval, or EDGAR, corporate filing system "may have provided the basis for illicit gain through trading."
Specifically, Clayton said in a sweeping cybersecurity statement, "a software vulnerability in the test filing component of the Commission's EDGAR system, which was patched promptly after discovery, was exploited and resulted in access to nonpublic information."
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