Scott Trade Alerts 4.6 Million Brokerage Customers of Breach

[LiberalArkie]

FOLLOWING NEWS THIS week that hackers stole data on 15 million T-Mobile customers comes a new report that 4.6 million customers of the St. Louis-based brokerage firm Scottrade may have also been hit in a different breach.

The retail brokerage firm disclosed to customers in an email today, and in a notice on its web site, that it suffered a database breach that occurred between late 2013 and early 2014, but the company only learned of it recently when law enforcement agents notified Scottrade that it was investigating a rash of breaches involving financial services firms, according to spokeswoman Shea Leordeanu.

The company said that the thieves appeared to have access to the network for several months between late 2013 and February 2014.

The breach went undetected until the FBI recently notified Scottrade in late August that it had been hacked, Leordeanu told WIRED.


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http://www.wired.com/2015/10/scottrade-alerts-4-6-million-brokerage-customers-breach/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. This is a biggee.

Watch your bank statements each and every day. All of these Brokers are tied together using the same electronic transfer system. Just changed all our passwords with our Brokers just in case.