Kara Scannell and Tom Braithwaite report: Fidelity Investments, one of the largest US mutual fund companies, was one of 13 financial institutions attacked by hackers, who are believed to be the same group that stole customer information from JPMorgan Chase, according to two people familiar with the matter. The breadth and sophistication of the attack…
Category: Financial Sector
Citigroup Said to Be Attacked by JPM Hackers
Michael Riley reports: Citigroup Inc. (C), E*Trade Financial Corp. (ETFC), Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Inc. and Regions Financial Corp. were attacked by the same hackers that breached JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), according to a person familiar with the matter. At least one of those companies — E*Trade — was targeted last year and subsequently…
Vulnerable Disclosures obtains information on 10 banks breached
Vulnerable Disclosures – a blog that seems to be re-posting some of my work from here and from PHIprivacy.net without any permission or even attribution – posted this: Russian hackers have posted information on 10 US banks that have been breached in the past week and a half and are threatening to post additional information. Vulnerable Disclosures…
J.P. Morgan won’t notify customers affected by breach
Priya Anand reports: J.P. Morgan Chase won’t notify those customers who have been affected by its summer security breach — estimated to be two-thirds of U.S. households — that their personal information was exposed, a spokesperson for the bank told MarketWatch. When asked why, the spokesperson said, “That’s just what we’re doing.” The nation’s largest bank…
JPMorgan email notification to customers
Well, I nearly trashed this email as spam because the sender showed as “Gregory Quental,” with a subject line “Important update on cyber security.” I’m glad I looked at it, though, as it was a message from JPMorgan about their breach: As you may know, Chase recently was the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack….
UPDATE: JP Morgan reveals data breach affected 76 million households and 7 million small businesses
Olivia Levoy of USA Today reports: The cyberattack on JP Morgan Chase & Co. first announced in July comprised information from 76 million households and 7 million small businesses, the company revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday. Contact information, including name, address, phone number and email address, as well as…