“Certainly a sophisticated threat actor, be it a nation-state or organized crime or some other person with those sort of inclinations, could very easily find ways into the system.”
However, former SEC counsel Bradley Bondi told “Closing Bell” he was very surprised by the intrusion given the tight security in that part of the SEC’s system.
“What happened here was the equivalent of a hacker going into Fort Knox and stealing some gold bars,” he said.
via SEC system that was breached is decades old, says former SEC attorney — CNBC