Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!
...competitor to E*Trade Bank , Citigroup , used the power of cyberspace, rumors and (mis)information to manipulate the market price of E*Trade ( ETFC ). This might have not been such an eyebrow raising event if the rumor (cyberattack) was by a disinterested third party. The attack wasby a direct competitor with their own subprime balance sheet...
