Cyber Crime: Leonid Momotok to Computer Hacking And Trading Scheme

Cyber Crime: Leonid Momotok to Computer Hacking And Trading Scheme Georgia Trader Pleads Guilty To Largest Known Computer Hacking And Tradin...

Cyber Crime: Leonid Momotok to Computer Hacking And Trading SchemeGeorgia Trader Pleads Guilty To Largest Known Computer Hacking And Trading Scheme More Than 150,000 Press Releases Stolen from Three Major Newswire Companies Used to Generate Approximately $30 Million in Illegal Trading Profits Earlier today, Leonid Momotok, of Suwanee, Georgia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in an international scheme to hack into three business newswires and steal yet-to-be published press releases containing non-public financial information that was then used to make trades that generated approximately $30 million in illegal profits.