中國黑客被控侵入華爾街律所
Chinese hackers breached a string of Wall Street law firms and stole data that led to $4m of illicit profits from trading on insider information, according to the US government, which said the case should act as “a wake-up call” to advisers around the world.
據美國政府稱，中國黑客侵入了數家華爾街律所的網絡並竊取了數據，從而憑藉內幕信息通過交易非法獲利400萬美元。美國政府表示，此案應向全球的顧問們敲響“一記警鐘”。
On Tuesday Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the southern district of New York, unsealed criminal charges against three individuals who it said infiltrated law firms by hacking in to networks and servers. Once inside, the trio targeted the email accounts of senior partners who worked on high-profile mergers and acquisitions — and then bought stock in at least five publicly traded companies before deals were announced.
週二，紐約南區檢察官普里特.巴拉拉（Preet Bharara，上圖）對三人提起刑事訴訟，指控他們利用黑客技術侵入網絡和服務器，打入了這些律所內部。成功侵入後，這三人便瞄準那些負責知名併購案的高級合夥人的電子郵件賬戶，然後在相關交易宣佈前買入了至少五家上市公司的股票。
The action is the latest in a series of cases of “outsider trading”, which watchdogs see as an increasingly serious threat to securities markets. Unlike classic insider trading, where senior executives trade stock based on material, non-public information learned at the office, outsider traders typically have no connection to the company concerned and do not owe a fiduciary duty to anyone.
此案是一系列“外線交易”案件中的最新一起，監管人員認爲此類交易對證券市場構成日益嚴重的威脅。在傳統的內線交易中，高管們利用職務中知曉的材料和非公開信息進行股票交易，外線交易則不同，交易者通常與有關公司沒有聯繫，且不對任何人負有受託人責任。
The Securities and Exchange Commission has pursued several cases in which thieves trade on stolen data. On Tuesday the SEC said that the latest action, led by Mr Bharara’s office with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was the first involving a law firm.
美國證交會(SEC)已追究若干起竊賊利用被盜數據交易的案件。SEC在週二表示最新的這起案件首次涉及律所，該案由巴拉拉辦公室主導、美國聯邦調查局(FBI)協助。
Mr Bharara said that the trio successfully breached “at least” two law firms, which it did not name, and targeted at least another five.
巴拉拉表示，這三人成功侵入了“至少”兩家律所（未具名），還瞄準了另外至少五家。
“This case of cyber-meets-securities fraud should serve as a wake-up call for law firms around the world,” said Mr Bharara in a statement. “You are, and will be, targets of cyber hacking, because you have information valuable to would-be criminals.”
巴拉拉在一份聲明中表示：“這起‘網絡觸碰證券’詐騙案應當爲全球律所敲響一記警鐘。你們已經是、或者將要成爲網絡黑客活動的目標，因爲你們擁有對潛在罪犯有價值的信息。”
The case is another scalp for Mr Bharara, who has pursued dozens of insider-trading cases since being appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. Late last month Mr Bharara, 48, told reporters that Donald Trump had asked him to stay in his current role.
這起案件是巴拉拉的又一個戰利品。自2009年獲得奧巴馬(Barack)的任命以來，巴拉拉已對數十起內線交易案件提出指控。上月底，48歲的巴拉拉向記者表示，唐納德.特朗普(Donald Trump)已請求他留任。
One of the three defendants, Iat Hong, a 26-year-old resident of Macau, was arrested in Hong Kong on Christmas Day and is now facing extradition. The others are Chin Hung, 50, of Macau, and Bo Zheng, a 30-year-old resident of Changsha, the capital of China’s Hunan province.
三名被告之一、26歲的澳門居民Iat Hong，於聖誕節當天在香港被捕，目前正等待引渡。其他兩人分別是50歲的澳門人Chin Hung和30歲的長沙居民Bo Zheng。
Some of the transactions from which the trio made money involved the drugmaker InterMune, chipmaker Intel and business services company Pitney Bowes, the DoJ said.
美國司法部(DoJ)表示，這三人從中獲利的部分交易涉及製藥商InterMune、芯片製造商英特爾(Intel)以及商業服務公司必能寶(Pitney Bowes)。
In the Pitney Bowes episode, Mr Hong and Mr Chin allegedly started buying shares in the company’s target — Borderfree — within 12 hours of emails being extracted from a law firm advising the acquirer. The pair did so aggressively, according to the SEC, accounting for at least 25 per cent of the company’s trading volume on certain days before the announcement of the $395m deal in May last year.
在涉及必能寶的案情裏，據稱Iat Hong與Chin Hung在爲必能寶收購Borderfree提供諮詢的律所的郵件被提取12小時內，開始買入Borderfree的股票。據SEC表示，兩人的買單極爲突出，在這筆3.95億美元的交易於去年5月公佈前的某些日子裏，兩人買入Borderfree股票的數量佔到該股當日成交量的至少25%。
The US government’s charges were brought in connection with the president’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which describes itself as the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to fight fraud.
美國政府的指控與美國總統金融欺詐執法工作組(FFETF)有關。該工作組的自我定位是，爲打擊欺詐而成立的最廣泛的執法、調查和監管機構聯盟。
In his statement, Mr Bharara acknowledged the help of the FBI and the SEC and also thanked the Office of International Affairs and Hong Kong law enforcement for their help in the arrest of Mr Hong.
巴拉拉在聲明中感謝了FBI和SEC的協助，並對國際事務辦公室(Office of International Affairs)和香港執法部門協助逮捕Iat Hong表示感謝。
