Rather, they involved manual day traders illegally targeting automated traders.
The attackers appear to have deliberately targeted civilian traders from Darfur, the troubled Western region of Sudan.
The next FTSE target traders are eyeing in the short term is the 5350 high hit in September last year - and the way sentiment is going it would not be a surprise to see that hit this week," he added.
"The neighborhoods targeted by Trader Joe's and Whole Foods are pretty similar, and are more likely to have bounced back quickly during the housing recovery of the last five years than neighborhoods targeted by Aldi".
Smith is leading a raft of campaigns in 2016, including one in April targeting rogue traders who now sell dodgy goods through websites rather than their car boots.
The company is targeting individual traders, has no plans to make big distribution deals and values its customer face time as a way to learn about changes that are needed quickly.
"I think its a brilliant plan to target individual traders with specialized equipment and tell them they can be as capable as the guys over at Charles Schwab," says analyst Rob Enderle of Giga Information Group.
Earlier this week, SecureWorks announced that it had determined that the Lazarus group, which it assessed to be behind the late 2014 Sony cyber attack, was likely the party responsible for a spearfishing campaign targeting bitcoin traders with an email offering a CFO job for an unnamed bitcoin company.
The campaign has successfully kept genetically modified salmon off the shelves of about 60 supermarkets, including Kroger's, Safeway, Target, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods Market.
And coming soon are Target, Trader Joe's not to mention a god-awful eighty-story "luxury" apartment tower at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge.
