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Articles about leaks of earnings and other sensitive information from company websites and other sources.

HP rushes out earnings after leaked memos

HP rushes out earnings after leaked memos

By Dominic Jones on May 17, 2011

SPARE a thought today for the investor relations and communications professionals at technology giant Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ).

Posted in Disclosure, IR News | Tagged Disclosure leaks

Reuters leaks FirstRand’s earnings, web firm in spotlight

Reuters leaks FirstRand’s earnings, web firm in spotlight

By Dominic Jones on March 11, 2011

TRADING in FirstRand Limited was halted this week after Reuters published the South African bank’s results the day before their scheduled release claiming it found the information on the company’s website.

Posted in IR News, Online IR | Tagged Disclosure leaks

Bloomberg bot strikes again: Transocean earnings leaked

Bloomberg bot strikes again: Transocean earnings leaked

By Dominic Jones on February 23, 2011

(Note: Updated to include additional information on Bloomberg unit called First Word, as well as details acquired by the Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal. Time stamp on Bloomberg’s first article appears to be Houston time, not ET. Times in this story are all ET.) BLOOMBERG’s web spider program picked up unreleased earnings information from the [...]

Posted in IR News | Tagged Disclosure leaks

Disclosure leaks: Can companies take legal action?

Disclosure leaks: Can companies take legal action?

By Vanessa Schoenthaler on January 31, 2011

IN RECENT weeks, several high-profile companies have had disclosure information leaked from their websites by market news providers using sophisticated search technologies to discover unpublished information on unsecured staging URLs.

Posted in IR News, Law | Tagged copyright, cyberlaw, Disclosure leaks, legal counsel, tort law

Meet the company that broke Microsoft’s earnings 70 minutes early

Meet the company that broke Microsoft’s earnings 70 minutes early

By Dominic Jones on January 27, 2011

SLOPPY web publishing practices by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) enabled a high-speed news technology company to pick up the tech giant’s earnings release from a staging URL and publish the results more than an hour before its scheduled release.

Posted in IR News | Tagged Disclosure leaks, Web Disclosure

NYSE heaps scorn on earnings leak firms

NYSE heaps scorn on earnings leak firms

By Dominic Jones on December 17, 2010

A NYSE Euronext official has called Bloomberg’s scraping of non-public earnings releases from the websites of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) and NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), which caused huge volatility in the stocks of both companies, “good reporting” by the newswire and shameful of the companies.

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged Disclosure leaks, Quarterly Reporting

IR website vendors explain how they prevent disclosure leaks

IR website vendors explain how they prevent disclosure leaks

By Dominic Jones on November 22, 2010

FOUR service providers who together host the majority of investor relations websites in North America have expressed confidence that their systems are secure following high-profile leaks of unpublished earnings information in recent weeks.

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged Disclosure leaks, Web Disclosure

Bloomberg grabs NetApp’s earnings early, second case in a week

Bloomberg grabs NetApp’s earnings early, second case in a week

By Dominic Jones on November 18, 2010

NETAPP Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) has become the second company in less than a week to have earnings information leaked from an unsecured area of its corporate website.

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged Bloomberg, Disclosure, Disclosure leaks, Quarterly Reporting, security breaches

Disney’s earnings release leak shocks stock

Disney’s earnings release leak shocks stock

By Dominic Jones on November 12, 2010

THE Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) yesterday saw its stock plunge after the company’s earnings release, disclosing worse than expected results, was discovered on its website at least 30 minutes prior to the normal release time.

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged business, Disclosure leaks, earnings, Investor Relations, investor relations website, websites

Dell’s earnings web leak offers 3 lessons for all IROs

By Dominic Jones on September 1, 2009

WHEN Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) accidentally posted earnings information on the web prior to their official announcement last week, it was a little like seeing a poster child for online disclosure fall from grace. None of the usual crop of online disclosure pundits uttered a word about it, as if to do so would cast [...]

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged compliance, dell inc, Disclosure leaks, Quarterly Reporting

OmniVision, PR Newswire release earnings by mistake

By Dominic Jones on June 5, 2007

A WEBSITE scheduling glitch at OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI) and a mistake by PR Newswire led to the halting of the company’s stock last week. Barron’s blogger Eric Savitz pieces the story together: Sometime after noon Pacific time on Thursday, the company inadvertently posted the announcement on the investor section of its Web site. [...]

Posted in IR News | Tagged Disclosure leaks, earnings, pr wires, SEC

What really happened in Business Wire hacking case?

By Dominic Jones on June 1, 2007

THE SEC has finalized its case against two Estonian citizens and a financial services firm for hacking into Business Wire’s computer system and trading in advance of more than 360 press releases — but how the scheme was pulled off remains shrouded in mystery.

Posted in IR News | Tagged Business Wire, Disclosure leaks, news releases, pr wires, SEC, securities

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