Tomren Wealth Management sent out notification letters recent following a server breach that occurred between February 21 and March 6, when the intrusion was discovered.
“The forensic examiners found spamming software was loaded onto the machine in a failed attempt to send out ‘junk” spam emails, however, we have been unable to determine whether the unauthorized party accessed any personal infonnation relating to you,” Michael Tomren wrote to those affected. Clients’ personal information stored on the server included names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license information, and clients’ FSC broker account numbers.
“At no time was there ever any access to your actual accounts and holdings with our firm,” Tomren reassured clients. “We have reviewed the daily transaction reports and we have found no irregularities. We have examined and will continue examining the measures we can take to help prevent incidents of this kind in the future. For example, we have upgraded the firewall, changed all passwords, deleted certain applications and hired forensic examiners to ensure the system is and will be free of threats.”
The San Ramon-based firm offered affected clients free credit protection for two years and reported the incident to the California Attorney General’s Office.