(Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning staffers that their personal brokerage account information may have been compromised, after it uncovered security flaws with an ethics compliance program.
The SEC put the program in place after its internal watchdog raised concerns about possible insider trading among SEC staffers.
In an October 7 letter to SEC employees, Chief Information Officer Thomas Bayer said that the contractor hired to operate a computer program that tracks trades had violated its agreement with the SEC by providing names and account numbers to a subcontractor without permission
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