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发信人: mitaas (勃大进深), 信区: NewJersey
标 题: 有个小中Quant 在芝加哥被捕了 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 13 14:07:04 2011, 美东)
发信人: mitaas (勃大进深), 信区: NewYork
标 题: 有个小中Quant 在芝加哥被捕了
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标 题: Re: 有个小中Quant 在芝加哥被捕了 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Oct 13 14:22:57 2011, 美东)
Ex-Citadel Employee Arrested in Alleged Code Theft
A former technology employee of hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin's Citadel LLC
was arrested for allegedly stealing sensitive computer trade secrets from
the company for his personal use, the Department of Justice said.
This is the latest case of trade-secret theft, after Sergey Aleynikov, a
former computer programmer for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., was found guilty in
December of stealing algorithmic-trading code from the bank ahead of his
departure to join a new high-frequency trading firm. He received an eight-
year prison sentence in March.
According to the complaint affidavit, 24-year-old Yihao Pu, also known as "
Ben Pu," was found by Citadel's information-technology department to have "
downloaded several unauthorized programs," which allegedly allowed him to
bypass Citadel's security protocols and transfer files or data from his
Citadel computer to an external storage device.
Certain files recovered from hard drives disposed in a sanitary canal near
the Wilmette Harbor north of Chicago contained "alphas" or building blocks
of Citadel's automated electronic trading algorithms and strategies. They
also indicated that Mr. Pu was attempting to construct a trading strategy
similar to the one used by Citadel, the affidavit said.
Trades made with Citadel's "alphas" would compete with Citadel's trades and
limit or eliminate the hedge-fund manager's profits.
Mr. Pu appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez on Wednesday and
was ordered to remain in federal custody pending a detention hearing Friday
in U.S. District Court.
Theft of trade secrets carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a
$250,000 fine.
Citadel declined to comment. |
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