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NEW YORK (AP) - Futures exchange company CME Group says it was the victim of a cyberattack over the summer.
CME Group said the breach happened in July through the company's ClearPort system, a software platform where over-the-counter trading of commodities and currencies is reported. An estimated 450,000 contracts pass through ClearPort on an average trading day.
The Chicago-based company said only ClearPort customers' information was compromised and the breach did not impact trading or any of the CME Group's other clearing systems.
The CME Group is the world's largest operator of futures exchanges. It owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, the New York Mercantile Exchange and others. The company's exchanges trade futures on gold and other metals as well as agricultural products like cocoa, soybeans and corn.
Federal criminal investigators are investigating the incident, CME said.
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