Court’s view, "the alleged 'hacking and trading’ was a 'device or contrivance' within the meaning of the statute." Dorozhko, 606 F.Supp.2d at 328. The District Court further observed that the scheme was "in connection with” the purchase or sale of securities because the close temporal proximity of the hacking to the trading (everything occurred in less than twenly-four hours) and the cohesiveness of the scheme (establishing the trading account, stealing the confidential information within minutes of its availability, and trading on it within minutes of the next day’s opening bell) suggest that hacking into the Thomson computers was part of a single scheme to commit securities fraud. See id. at 328-29; see also SEC v. Zandford, 535 U.S. 813, 822, 122 S.Ct. 1899, 153 L.Ed.2d 1 (2002) (<HOLDING>). The District Court also concluded that the
holding that based upon means similar to or supported by holding the connection is an element holding that the phrases in connection with and associated with are synonymous with the terms with respect to with reference to and relating to which mean connected by reason of an established or discoverable relation holding that in connection with means to coincide holding that some federal connection to the misconduct is required