U.S. Places $2 Million Bounty on Men in Alleged SEC Hacking

The U.S. will pay as much as $2 million for information leading to the arrests of two Ukrainian men accused of participating in a scheme to hack into the SEC’s company filings database and make illegal trades.

Artem Radchenko and Oleksandr Ieremenko each had a bounty of up to $1 million put on them for their roles in the 2016 hacking of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR e-filing system, the State Department said Wednesday.

Radchenko recruited Ieremenko, who got into the SEC database and shared nonpublic information with Ukrainian and Russian traders who made at least $4.1 million in ...