those hackers in 2015 bought shares and another company called altera. law firmhacked into a before that and this law firm forbeen retained by intel acquisitions services as they looked into a possibility to acquire altera. they made $1.4 million as that share price rose on media reports of air and they sold the shares before the deal was announced. another company with pitney bowes, hacked before it was publiclyd in at least announcing it wanted shares in an e-commerce site border free. those hackers made about $800,000 in 2015. that deal did not close, but they still profited from the share price moves that happened off of that. anchor: we have learned these three alleged hackers worked together in the companies. how did they pull the selloff? -- pull this off? ramy: they worked in macau and hong kong and they got together and they were looking for holes in these law firms, and all it took was for one person to be breached in terms of their login credentials and their password. after that happened, then these folks placed malware onto the server of tha

boughttel, hackers shares in the chipmaker altera, but before that, they had hacked into the law firm had hired for acquisition services. one point $4 made million as share prices sold, but sold their shares before the deal was announced. pitney bowes, they bought shares in a site and made $800,000. secor how they did it, the says there were similar tactics for all three. the hackers obtain the login and password of an employee, then put malware on a server that let them access emails of executives within that company, then got the data and looked over it for what ever was useful for their dealings that they could trade off. one day, they took 10 gigabytes of confidential data. it turns out they were not always successful. the men of allegedly tried more than 100,000 times to break into five law forms. that was not successful, but they did score at least $4 million, but now identified, charged with hacking and insider trading, and one man has a ready been arrested in hong kong, facing extradition to the united states. well, up next, japan's prime minister visiting pearl harbor and off