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Question: Investigate MOSAIC: Search SEC EDGAR for "Query database migration logs and system maintenance records for 2017-2018 EDGAR modernization project". Would establish whether database migration events correlate with the emergence of future-dated filings for dormant entities. Report any findings as factual claims with dates and evidence.
Date: 2026-04-09
My investigation found no evidence of database migration logs or system maintenance records specifically correlating with future-dated filings for dormant entities during the 2017-2018 EDGAR modernization period. However, the research revealed significant cybersecurity and system integrity issues during this timeframe. The SEC's EDGAR system was breached in 2016 by Ukrainian hacker Oleksandr Ieremenko, who exploited vulnerabilities in the test filing component to steal nonpublic earnings information from companies that incorrectly used real data instead of dummy data for testing. This breach, discovered in October 2016 but not fully understood until August 2017, enabled at least $4.1 million in illegal trading profits across 157 earnings releases. Concurrently, the SEC was pursuing EDGAR modernization efforts, awarding a $6.1 million contract to Sapient Government Services in 2016 for system redesign requirements and creating the EDGAR Business Office around 2017 to oversee the multi-year modernization project. The timing suggests the modernization efforts may have been accelerated in response to the cybersecurity incident, but no specific evidence was found linking database migration events to anomalous future-dated filings.