US stock market security breached

The US-based NASDAQ stock exchange has said that its security system was breached by hackers,but asserted that there was no evidence that any of its customer information or trading was compromised.

8220;Through our normal security monitoring systems we detected suspicious files on the US servers unrelated to our trading systems and determined that our web-facing application Directors Desk was potentially affected,8221; Vince Palmiere,Vice President Investor Relations of NASDAQ said in an email to the media last evening.

Investigations are going on in association with the government agencies,NASDAQ said after 8216;The Wall Street Journal8217; broke the news in this regard yesterday.