4.6 mln Scottrade clients possibly exposed in hack

[Recursion]

Source: USA Today

Client names and addresses for as many as 4.6 million clients of discount brokerage firm Scottrade may have been compromised by hackers, the company said Friday.

Word of the breach comes one day after Experian said 15 million T-Mobile customers had their information accessed by hackers.

Together, they mark a bad beginning for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, which started Thursday.

The online brokerage found out about the breach when federal law enforcement officials informed it of an ongoing investigation into cybersecurity issues at financial services companies, Scottrade said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/10/02/scottrade-broker-hacker-breach-46-million/73233356/

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The online brokerage found out about the breach when federal law enforcement officials informed it of an ongoing investigation

[whereisjustice]

1. 100 billion dollars for "cyber security"? Who is NSA watching? Oh, right. Everyone else.

[BadGimp]

2. Crap I'm a Scottrade user

😂

[wordpix]

3. me, too

????I'm going to the site to see if there's info

[Snotcicles]

4. Me too. The breach was late 2013 early 2014. nt

[coffeenap]

5. Scottrade's response here:

https://about.scottrade.com/updates/cybersecurity.html

[wordpix]

6. that old? Why's it in LBN? No news at scottrade site

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Crap! I'm a T-Mobile user.

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First time I have heard of this.

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