JPMorgan breach likely impacts UCard users – again

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2599839/social-engineering/jpmorgan-breach-likely-impacts-ucard-users-again.html

By Steve Ragan
CSO Online
Sep 2, 2014

The story is nearly identical to one from nearly a year ago. It starts 
with JPMorgan Chase disclosing that they've suffered a data breach.

The bank says that an unknown number of records have been compromised, but 
it's certain that the incident impacts customers from various services, 
including those using JPMorgan's UCard.

In 2013, the story focused on a breach that occurred in July and was 
detected and addressed in September. Several months later, JPMorgan's most 
recent security problems were detected sooner, but the end result is still 
the same - gigabytes of data was compromised, including customer (savings 
and checking account) and corporate (HR) records.

As such, JPMorgan Chase once again initiated the communications aspect of 
their incident response plan last week, and notified state agencies that 
people using pre-paid debit cards could be impacted by this latest breach.

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