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Now America's financial watchdog probes 'frat house' Activision Blizzard
Plus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom
21 Sep 2021 21:23 | 3
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SEC takes legal action after crowdfunded marijuana investment scheme appears to go up in smoke
Platform and individuals charged in first case of its kind
21 Sep 2021 18:32 | 19
Personal Tech
Twitter offers to cough up 80 days of annual sales to settle 'false' user count lawsuit
Web biz proposes $800m to disappear accusations of over-promising audience size to investors
20 Sep 2021 22:34 | 4
Legal
App Annie fined $10m by the SEC for deceptive practices around how it presented data
Analytics firm will neither admit nor deny the findings
15 Sep 2021 14:15 | 6
Personal Tech
Crypto-coin startup said its bot could generate huge profits from your Bitcoin. It was a scam, says SEC
Founder and promoter accused of running 'Ponzi-like scheme'
03 Sep 2021 11:27 | 30
Security
SEC still digging into SolarWinds fallout, nudges undeclared victims
US markets watchdog sniffs around potential insider trading, data violations relating to hack
22 Jun 2021 22:45 | 6
Security
School teacher accused of pocketing $1m+ in insider trading using tips from Silicon Valley pal
One of six guys charged over Infinera, Fortinet securities
16 Jun 2021 20:20 | 10
Offbeat
You were supposed to be watching him. Letters from SEC claim Tesla breached deal to police Elon Musk's tweets
2020 missives from American securities regulator to car firm revealed
02 Jun 2021 15:12 | 17
Networks
Cisco reveals a probe of 'self-enrichment scheme' involving ex-employees in China
Also lifts lid on allegations former workers paid staffers of 'state-owned enterprises'
18 Feb 2021 19:07 | 3
Science
SEC: If you want to easily crowdfund investment in your business, knock yourself out, all the way to $5m
Rules loosened by regulator, concerns raised they favor the rich
04 Nov 2020 18:00 |
Security
Former antivirus baron John McAfee collared, faces extradition to America on tax evasion, securities allegations
He paid more or less than $750, though?
06 Oct 2020 02:42 | 111
AI + ML
SEC drags Silicon Valley AI upstart to court over claims of made-up revenues, investors swindled out of $11m
No, surely not, no way, we're utterly shocked
22 Jul 2020 01:08 | 3
Science
Never thought we'd write this headline: Under Siege Steven Seagal is not Above The Law, must fork out $314,000 after boosting crypto-coin biz
D-list cinematic eye-gouger catches heat for million-dollar funbucks bung
27 Feb 2020 20:23 | 41
Science
Fake docs rock real docs: Ex-Wall St guy accused of conning medics out of £27m for bogus cryptocurrency fund using faked paperwork
He spent the dosh on himself rather than invest it as promised, prosecutors claim
12 Feb 2020 10:11 | 26
Networks
IT isn't supposed to stand for Insider Trading... Palo Alto Networks sysadmin and pals accused of $7m shares caper
Techie allegedly fed secret financial info to buddies ahead of public release
18 Dec 2019 02:22 | 11
Science
Colorado cryptocoin execs spark up blunt '$722m ponzi scheme' criminal charges after investments go up in smoke
Dude, pass the indictment
11 Dec 2019 21:21 | 13
On-Prem
Infosys confirms SEC probe, says India's SEBI also wants a word
Plus a class action sueball – it's been a busy 24 hours for Indian outsourcer
24 Oct 2019 15:45 | 1
On-Prem
WeWork, but We don't IPO: Self-styled techie boarding house calls off cursed stock offering
The worst thing to happen to them since the last thing
30 Sep 2019 23:47 | 41
Science
Cryptocurrency lovers slip US watchdog $7m to make claims of ripping off investors, other rule breaking simply vanish
Meanwhile, SEC takes on Kik on similar charges
13 Aug 2019 23:27 | 3
Security
US insurers face SEC probe over web-access bungle that exposed 'up to 885 million' files
But it claims just 32 people had 'non-public' info disclosed. Eh?
13 Aug 2019 11:57 | 18
On-Prem
While on his way to the clink, IT consultancy big cheese will cough up that $2.9m he embezzled
Nandu Thondavadi reaches agreement with America's financial watchdog
31 Jul 2019 19:35 | 5
Security
Delicious irony: Hacked medical debt collector AMCA files for bankruptcy protection from debt collectors
The tables are turned, database tables that is
18 Jun 2019 18:09 | 36
Security
Bloody awful: Hell-thcare hackers break into databases of 20m medical test biz patients
Outsourced silos of personal info raided, at least 200,000 payment details swiped
05 Jun 2019 00:41 | 14
Science
SEC says no to Amazon bid to stop shareholders voting on use of facial recognition system
Proposal seeking to halt sale of Rekognition to US agencies to be heard at annual meeting
08 Apr 2019 15:45 | 22
On-Prem
Head of Apple's insider trading program charged with… you guessed it... insider trading
US financial watchdog, prosecutors overdose on irony
13 Feb 2019 19:03 | 33
Security
EDGAR Wrong: Ukrainians hacked SEC, stole docs for inside trading, says Uncle Sam
Crooks banked $270,000 in just one move, it is claimed
15 Jan 2019 23:55 | 11
Security
Uncle Sam wants tech toolkit to snoop social media stock scammers
Pumpers and dumpers, flash crashers and other miscreants under the SEC's spotlight
05 Sep 2018 00:20 | 6
Security
IT biz embezzlement brouhaha leaves bloke with $456k migraine
Backer charged in connection with alleged $4.1m corporate fraud scandal
23 Jul 2018 19:29 | 9
Security
Four US govt agencies poke probe in Facebook following more 'oops, we spilled your data' shocks
Giving dozens of devs access to profiles suddenly looks dumb
03 Jul 2018 18:16 | 30
On-Prem
The strange tale of an energy biz that suddenly became a blockchain upstart – and $1.4m now forfeited in sold shares
Two blokes charged by SEC settle out of court
02 Jul 2018 20:46 | 19
Storage
CEO of struggling storage biz Tintri quits
SEC filing shows company up the creek and sans paddle
19 Jun 2018 23:07 | 10
Storage
Tintri teeters on the edge of oblivion
Management faces the ghoulish and grisly truth
18 Jun 2018 06:03 | 7
Networks
Thought the AT&T Time-Warner tie-up was scary? Comcast says 'hold my beer'
American cable giant offers $65bn for 21st Century Fox
14 Jun 2018 00:00 | 16
Roundup
A Spectre flaw solution, Cloudflare blips, a bank cyber-heist in Canada, and more in infosec land
Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO
02 Jun 2018 00:24 | 3
Legal
Real fake scam offers crypto-coin to replace frequent flier points
True lies from SEC designed to educate - hang on, what's the interest rate on this thing?
17 May 2018 07:26 | 14
On-Prem
John McAfee ‘goes underground’ in motorcade to flee SEC
Babbles about subpoenas, corruption, corrupt pyramidal power structures and so much more
16 May 2018 01:15 | 37
Security
Equifax reveals full horror of that monstrous cyber-heist of its servers
146 million people, 99 million addresses, 209,000 payment cards, 38,000 drivers' licenses and 3,200 passports
08 May 2018 02:57 | 80
Personal Tech
Facebook confesses: Buckle up, there's plenty more privacy lapses where that came from
It's a $460bn business with a free service… what did you think was going on?
27 Apr 2018 21:59 | 44
Security
Yahoo! fined! $35m! for! covering! up! massive! IT! security! screwup!
Now, who wants to take a look at the revamped Yahoo Mail?
24 Apr 2018 19:09 | 24
Science
US watchdog reckons blockchain bods Longfin were wrongfin, maybe this is their swansongfin
SEC cops crash crypto coin creeps' alleged crime caper
06 Apr 2018 23:39 | 7
Science
Students: Duh, of course we're blowing our loan bucks on crypto coins
Still a better investment than art school or avocado toast
26 Mar 2018 23:14 | 22
Science
Bad blood: Theranos CEO charged with massive fraud
'Next Steve Jobs' humiliated and ruined but avoids jail
14 Mar 2018 19:20 | 70
On-Prem
Stock trader gets two years in prison for pumping up with Fitbit
Using wearable to get wrong kind of gains get Big House visit
12 Mar 2018 19:24 | 19
Science
US authorities call on cryptocoin 'exchanges' to sign up for regulation
They walk and quack like an Exchange but SEC says don’t invest unless they follow rules like an Exchange
08 Mar 2018 05:03 | 7
Personal Tech
US watchdog just gave up trying to get Google to explain YouTube's huge financial figures
Don't you worry your pretty little heads about it, says web giant
28 Feb 2018 00:23 | 39
Science
Hey, look who's rushing to weigh in on crypto-coins. Hello, United Nations and European Commission!
Rules, rules, standards, and rules
23 Jan 2018 23:19 | 6
Roundup
Stripe in Bitcoin hype flight while fans blindly gobble up crypto-cash
Between scrutiny, scams, fees, and hacking, digi-dosh looks less appealing
23 Jan 2018 22:56 | 16
Science
Blockheads changing company names to surf crypto wave get a warning from the SEC
Regulator tells lawyers told to get off the fence or face unpleasant fall
23 Jan 2018 03:56 | 25
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