NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Data Breach (2013)
NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.
lowVERIS
Disclosed
August 22, 2013
4600 days ago
Records
Undisclosed
Confirmed
Root Cause
Misconfiguration
Industry
Finance
Description
Nasdaq suffers outage due to software glitch. Received 26-times normal load from another exchange firm. Error in code worsened situation by not triggering built-in redundancy.