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Attorney Alleges Ameritrade Knew Of Security Breach A Year Ago
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:39:52 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807006 An attorney launching a class-action lawsuit against TD Ameritrade Holding alleges the online brokerage knew a hacker had access to a customer database as far back as a year ago. Last Friday, Ameritrade e-mailed account holders and put a public advisory on its Web site alerting users that a hacker broke into one of its databases and stole personally identifying information for some of its 6.3 million customers. The company said names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses were taken in the data breach. Client assets, along with user IDs, personal identification numbers, and passwords, were not stored in the compromised database. However, the advisory noted that it's unclear if account numbers, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers were stolen. Ameritrade did not say when the hackers got into the database or how long they remained there. Kim Hillyer, a spokeswoman for Ameritrade, said in an interview that all of the company's 6.3 million accounts that were opened before July 18 of this year were breached. She would not say when the company first learned that there had been a breach, only offering that "they had been investigating client reports of spam for some time." [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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