Trading on non-public information made available through criminal networks?

Hello, I'm wondering if trading on information obtained from connections in various cybercrime networks would be considered illegal. The information obtained is not sourced from an officer or employee of the company. It's usually in the form of special knowledge about a data leak or large DDoS attack.

I am not involved with the cybercrimes, I just hear about them before the general public.

If there is regulation forbidding this, could someone point me to specific statues/case law? Thanks :)

Submitted December 17, 2016 at 05:49PM by Vlir http://ift.tt/2hL3TXK