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MA: Hackers compromised LPL security
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:25:45 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/REG/134627256/1094/INDaily01 For the second time in a year, LPL Financial has experienced a major technology snafu, this time reporting that hackers "compromised" the logon passwords of 14 financial advisers and four assistants. The hackers' goal was to use the passwords to gain access to customer accounts in order to "pump and dump" penny stocks. The incidents, which began last July, affected 10,219 clients, Boston-based LPL said in a letter dated May 6 to Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler. Valuable private client information was at stake, Keith H. Fine, senior vice president and associate counsel of LPL wrote in the letter, as the hackers potentially could get their hands on clients' unencrypted names, addresses and Social Security numbers. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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