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Dow Jones has poured cold water on claims that its servers were penetrated by hackers harvesting information for insider dealing.
On Friday Bloomberg reported that the FBI, US financial watchdog the SEC, and America's Secret Service were probing allegations that a Russian gang stole unpublished financial data and news articles from Dow Jones computers to get an edge on the market.
Bloomberg cited four anonymous sources in its report, one of whom said the investigators reckon the intrusion may have happened over a year ago.
In the past few minutes, Dow told The Reg that it doesn't know what Bloomberg is talking about …. http://www.theregister.co.uk