Security News > 2020 > July > US Offers $2mn Bounty for Ukrainian SEC Hackers
The US State Department and Secret Service offered $2 million in reward money Wednesday for help capturing two Ukrainians charged with hacking and selling valuable insider corporate information from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The agencies offered a bounty of $1 million each for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Artem Viacheslavovich Radchenko and Oleksandr Vitalyevich Ieremenko on charges of international cybercrime.
The Justice Department said they both sold the hacked information and traded securities before the information was made public.
The two were charged in a 16-count indictment with securities fraud conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, computer fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and computer fraud.
It was the first time the Secret Service offered a reward internationally toward apprehending a target of US law enforcement.
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