A SpaceX engineer's dark web insider trading sparks an SEC first

Re:A SpaceX engineer's dark web insider trading sparks an SE... by xt00 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @11:34AM (#26523841)

TLDR: the guy was selling tips on the “dark web” in 2017 about stocks going up or down totaling 27k in Bitcoin. Sounds like he was caught when he purchased some personal info of people and used that info to open new trading accounts.

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Re:A SpaceX engineer's dark web insider trading sparks an SE... by RedShift1 on Sunday March 21, 2021 @07:34AM (#26529675)

So the charge should include identity theft?

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Re:A SpaceX engineer's dark web insider trading sparks an SE... by minitoar on Sunday March 21, 2021 @01:17PM (#26532010)

"Officer, I didn't know these were stolen identities when I purchased them"

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