St. Louis - based retail brokerage house firm Scottrade has been hacked . The social surety numbers , email addresses , street addresses , and other sensible data of at least 4.6 million customers was get at .
The data was stolen between late 2013 and early 2014 . Scottridge is now offering a class of innocent credit monitoring for people affected . If that sounds conversant , you may be mean of yesterday ’s news : T - Mobileis also offering gratuitous credit monitoringfor the 15 million people at endangerment after a break of its recognition reportage vender Experian .
Security research worker Brian Krebs talked to a Scottrade spokesperson Shea Leordeanu about the hack . Leordeanu did n’t offer any new information , except that the companylearned about the breachfrom the FBI .
Scottrade supply a notice about the breach , emphasize that its encrypted passwords appear safe . That may not be much comfort to the trillion of people whose basic identifying entropy was hijacked .
Here ’s the full notice from Scottrade’swebsite :
Federal law enforcement officials latterly inform us that they ’ve been investigating cybersecurity crimes involving the theft of information from Scottrade and other fiscal services companies . found on our investigation and entropy ply by Union authorization , we believe the illegal bodily process require our meshwork occurred between late 2013 and former 2014 , and aim client public figure and street computer address .
Although Social Security identification number , email addresses and other raw data were contained in the system get at , it appears that contact information was the focus of the incident .
We have no reason to think that Scottrade ’s trading platforms or any node funds were compromise . node parole remained fully encrypted at all times and we have not visit any indicant of fraudulent bodily process as a resolution of this incident .
We have batten down the known intrusion point and carry on an internal data point forensics investigation on this incident with assistance from a go computer security firm . We have taken appropriate step to further tone our web defenses .
As a precaution , however , we are straight off notifying and offering identity protection services to approximately 4.6 million clients whose information was in the targeted database . We take the security of the information entrusted to us very badly and are fully cooperating with law enforcement in its investigation and exploit to bring the perpetrator to justice .
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