Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., operator of the largest stock exchange by market value, yesterday suspended trading in shares of several companies, including HSBC Holdings Plc after the bourse website is burglarized hackers.
Europe's biggest bank by market capitalization, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., and five other stock trading halted after a malicious attack on the bourse website on the disclosure of information. Hacker attacks came after the Hong Kong bourse rebounds.
"The situation is very worrisome because the attacks targeting the mechanisms of information disclosure," said Charles Mok, head of the Internet Society.
Hong Kong Stock Exchange suspended trading in issuers who publish information that is sensitive to stock price, including the matter of performance and acquisitions. HSBC said its stock stopped trading yesterday as the statement on the sale of units of credit card and retail services in the United States.
Wednesday afternoon, the stock convince investors that these investors have equal access to information. Hong Kong's chief executive Charles Li said the exchange would put up an online bulletin board as an alternate and will advertise in print media to tell where investors can access the data issuers. "Based on our investigation, this is an attack from outside hackers," Li said yesterday (10 / 8) in a press conference.
Li added that the current stock is looking to know where the hacker. Hong Kong Exchange Commissioner Ronald Arculli said the bourse was reviewing its technology infrastructure. Arculli said today, Hong Kong's return to normal operation.
Technology Crime Division of the Hong Kong Police are currently investigating the burglary case of this stock. Similarly, the stock regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission.
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