June 22, 2016
Posted August 1, 2016
The SEC obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of Idris Dayo Mustapha, a UK resident charged with intruding into the online brokerage accounts of U.S. investors to make unauthorized stock trades that allowed him to profit on trades in his own account. The SEC’s complaint alleges that in April and May of 2016, Mustapha hacked into numerous accounts of U.S. customers of broker-dealers in and outside the U.S, placed stock trades without the customers’ knowledge, and then traded in the same stocks through his brokerage account. SEC
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