Three charged with stealing source code, data from trading firm

By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two men have been charged by New York prosecutors with stealing secret computer code from a high-frequency trading firm in an effort to start their own business. Jason Vuu, a former trader at Flow Traders LLC in Manhattan, was charged with emailing himself trading strategies, valuation algorithms and proprietary code from the firm and sharing the code with another man, Simon Lu, according to criminal complaints filed by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance. ...



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