Kim Zetter, Contributor, Threat Level, Wired

FBI: Russian Programmer Stole Stock-Trading Secret Code

July 7, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

A computer programmer working for Goldman Sachs was arrested last week on charges that he stole proprietary source code for software his employer uses to make sophisticated, high-speed, high-volume stock and commodities trades.

Sergey Aleynikov, who earned nearly $400,000 in his job, allegedly stole 32 megabytes of data over four days in June and transferred it to a website hosted in Germany before trying to erase his tracks from Goldman Sachs’ network.

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