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Scott Trade site hacked

Posted on 10/3/15 at 3:47 pm
Posted by Reubaltaich
A nation under duress
Member since Jun 2006
4973 posts
Posted on 10/3/15 at 3:47 pm
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Scottrade, the stock trading service, has been hacked -- and it lost information on 4.6 million customers.

The breach affected those who signed up for a Scottrade brokerage account before February 2014.

Hackers gained access to a massive database of Scottrade customers. Hackers pulled names and physical addresses. The database also contained emails and Social Security numbers, but Scottrade says it does not believe that data was taken (see correction below).


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WOW, a major stock trading site is hacked. Scary.

I don't use ST but this makes you think about how 'safe' any site is in regards to security.
Posted by The Easter Bunny
Minnesota
Member since Jan 2005
45570 posts
Posted on 10/3/15 at 4:50 pm to
Well frick
Posted by Lsut81
Member since Jun 2005
80251 posts
Posted on 10/3/15 at 7:03 pm to
I have a feeling scottrade is going to be paying for 4.6 million credit monitoring subscriptions through equifax.
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
126968 posts
Posted on 10/4/15 at 11:09 am to
I hope they didn't get the helicopter.....
Posted by Catman88
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2004
49125 posts
Posted on 10/5/15 at 8:33 am to
Well Im glad I found out about this from TD.com rather than Scott Trade.
Posted by yellowhammer2098
New Orleans, LA
Member since Mar 2013
3850 posts
Posted on 10/5/15 at 10:46 am to
I opened a brokerage account at Scottrade before February 2014 and closed it in late 2014.. Wonder if they have my information.

Doubt they care though because my account had ~2k in it.
Posted by eye65
Member since Aug 2009
987 posts
Posted on 10/6/15 at 9:08 am to
quote:

we believe the illegal activity involving our network occurred between late 2013 and early 2014, and targeted client names and street addresses.


So it took two years to let us know criminals got all our info....? And we are offered "protection" for a year?
With the speed of the interwebz it's already been traded 10362 times...
Awesome
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