Mealey's (January 15, 2019, 2:36 PM EST) -- NEWARK, N.J. — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 15 sued several American and foreign individuals and entities in a New Jersey federal court, alleging that the defendants engaged in a fraudulent scheme to hack into the SEC’s online Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system to obtain nonpublic earning documents for publicly traded companies and trade on the information obtained in violation of federal securities laws (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Oleksandr Ieremenko, et al., No. 19-0505, D. N.J.)....