Bloomberg is out with an expose on a 2010 hacker attack on the Nasdaq exchange. The accessed the Director’s Desk system but it’s unclear if they took any data.
If the hackers’ motive was profit, Nasdaq’s Director’s Desk, the Web-based communication system where they first entered the network, offered amazing possibilities. It’s used by thousands of corporate board directors to exchange confidential financial information about their companies. Analyst reports are passed to the board of a company using the system a day before they’re made public; whoever got their hands on those could accumulate an instant fortune.
Investigations pointed to Russia but also looked at Asia. They never found out definitively who was responsible or what they were able to access and steal.
