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Scott Trade site hacked
Posted on 10/3/15 at 3:47 pm
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).
LINK
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.
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Posted on 10/3/15 at 4:50 pm to Reubaltaich
Well frick
Posted on 10/3/15 at 7:03 pm to Reubaltaich
I have a feeling scottrade is going to be paying for 4.6 million credit monitoring subscriptions through equifax.
Posted on 10/4/15 at 11:09 am to Reubaltaich
I hope they didn't get the helicopter.....
Posted on 10/5/15 at 8:33 am to Reubaltaich
Well Im glad I found out about this from TD.com rather than Scott Trade.
Posted on 10/5/15 at 9:10 am to Catman88
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Well Im glad I found out about this from TD.com rather than Scott Trade.
Exactly. Pisses me off.
Ive been weighing moving everything I have to a Raymond James advisor. This may be the sign I need.
Posted on 10/5/15 at 10:46 am to Reubaltaich
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.
Doubt they care though because my account had ~2k in it.
Posted on 10/5/15 at 3:32 pm to Lsut81
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I have a feeling scottrade is going to be paying for 4.6 million credit monitoring subscriptions through equifax.
Offering only 1 year of identity theft protection.
Posted on 10/5/15 at 6:33 pm to NOFOX
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Offering only 1 year of identity theft protection.
How do you know? I haven't seen any communication about the breach from scottrade
Posted on 10/5/15 at 7:34 pm to Catman88
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Well Im glad I found out about this from TD.com rather than Scott Trade.
This story has been very quiet in the news media considering this is hack into a very well known trading site.
I know a lot of financial sites are attacked every day.
Just makes me wonder what else has happened.
BTW, good luck.
Posted on 10/5/15 at 9:33 pm to Lsut81
Pretty bullshite that they didn't even send me an email, but I went onto my account and under my general messages on the side of the screen is
" Important Security Alert"
This is what it contains:
" Important Security Alert"
This is what it contains:
quote:
Cyber Security Update
Federal law enforcement officials recently informed us that they’ve been investigating cybersecurity crimes involving the theft of information from Scottrade and other financial services companies. Based on our investigation and information provided by federal authorities, we believe the illegal activity involving our network occurred between late 2013 and early 2014, and targeted client names and street addresses.
Although Social Security numbers, email addresses and other sensitive data were contained in the system accessed, it appears that contact information was the focus of the incident.
We have no reason to believe that Scottrade’s trading platforms or any client funds were compromised. Client passwords remained fully encrypted at all times and we have not seen any indication of fraudulent activity as a result of this incident.
We have secured the known intrusion point and conducted an internal data forensics investigation on this incident with assistance from a leading computer security firm. We have taken appropriate steps to further strengthen our network defenses.
As a precaution, however, we are directly notifying and offering identity protection services to approximately 4.6 million clients whose information was in the targeted database. We take the security of the information entrusted to us very seriously and are fully cooperating with law enforcement in its investigation and efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:36 am to lighter345
I think we as account holder should have been notified of the breach, but I assume that since I got no other communication from them, that my account was not one of the one's hacked. Maybe I'm just being naive, though 
Posted on 10/6/15 at 9:08 am to Reubaltaich
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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
Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:06 pm to eye65
Well, here we go again.
From the same link but different story:
LINK
From the same link but different story:
quote:
Experian has suffered a major data breach. Hackers have made off with personal information of 15 million people who applied to sign up for T-Mobile's service last month.
Anyone who applied for a regular T-Mobile USA postpaid plan between Sept. 1, 2013 and Sept. 16, 2015 might be affected. T-Mobile used Experian, one of the three major credit bureaus, to conduct credit checks on its customers.
LINK
Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:11 pm to Reubaltaich
Got an email from scottrade today... One year of monitoring through some company I've never heard off
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