by Alana Mastrangelo at Breitbart News
The SEC said confidential Netflix subscriber growth data was used in the scheme to allegedly trade the streaming giant’s shares ahead of its earnings reports, according to a report by BBC News.
“We allege that a Netflix employee and his close associates engaged in a long-running, multimillion dollar scheme to profit from valuable, misappropriated company information,” said SEC director Erin Schneider.
The SEC alleges that former Netflix software engineer Sung Mo Jun was at the center of the long-running plan to illegally trade shares using insider information about the company’s subscriber growth, the report adds.
While working at Netflix in 2016 and 2017, he repeatedly provided confidential information to his brother Joon Mo Jun, as well as his close friend, Junwoo Chon, who both then used the information to trade ahead of multiple Netflix earnings announcements, according to the complaint.
Moreover, after Sung Mo Jun left Netflix in 2017, the former software engineer allegedly continued obtaining confidential subscriber growth information from two other company insiders, Ayden Lee and Jae Hyeon Bae, the SEC says.
The SEC added that it uncovered the alleged scheme by…
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