{"id":69668,"date":"2019-06-12T00:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T04:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69668"},"modified":"2019-06-14T03:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:30:37","slug":"a-watchdog-says-hedge-fund-secrets-kept-by-the-cftc-are-vulnerable-to-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2019\/a-watchdog-says-hedge-fund-secrets-kept-by-the-cftc-are-vulnerable-to-hacking.html","title":{"rendered":"A Watchdog Says Hedge-Fund Secrets Kept by the CFTC are Vulnerable to Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Confidential market information collected from hedge funds and brokers by the main U.S. derivatives regulator is vulnerable to hacking because of the agency\u2019s outdated computer systems, according to an internal watchdog. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission needs to correct \u201cnumerous weaknesses\u201d in the way it manages and stores data, the inspector general\u2019s office said in an audit report released late last week. The review also said the CFTC needs to rebuild or replace a key, but antiquated, database of confidential trading positions that it uses to police futures and options markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-06-11\/hedge-fund-secrets-shared-with-cftc-may-be-vulnerable-to-hacks\">To Read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Confidential market information collected from hedge funds and brokers by the main U.S. derivatives regulator is vulnerable to hacking because of the agency\u2019s outdated computer systems, according to an internal watchdog. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission needs to correct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69669,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69668\/revisions\/69669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}