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Re:Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers by andrewchambers on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @11:00PM (#10045779)
Of course the hacks are illegal, he was asking whether using the data should be classified as insider trading.
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Re:Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers by RockyMcNuts on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @12:50PM (#10048887)
'Of course hacks are illegal', but paying someone to hack and profit from the inside information is OK?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-11/hackers-10...

'Insider trading' is trading on material nonpublic information that was inappropriately acquired from an 'insider'.

There are situations that are gray areas but this does not appear to be one of them.

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