TD Ameritrade Finds Breach
Online trading company TD Ameritrade alerted more than six million customers Friday that a security breach occurred with its client information database. The database contained such sensitive information as clients' names, social security numbers, date of birth, address, phone number and trading activity.
Read more HERE.
The item above does seem to have an error though - it lists Past Breaches as None, BUT, PrivacyRights lists a previous breach [Dec. 1, 2006] - "According to a letter sent to employees, a laptop was removed (presumably stolen) from the office Oct. 18, 2006, that contained unencrypted information including names, addresses, birthdates, and SSNs".
Read more HERE.
The item above does seem to have an error though - it lists Past Breaches as None, BUT, PrivacyRights lists a previous breach [Dec. 1, 2006] - "According to a letter sent to employees, a laptop was removed (presumably stolen) from the office Oct. 18, 2006, that contained unencrypted information including names, addresses, birthdates, and SSNs".
posted by vanish at 8:58 AM
1 Comments:
Vanish, you are correct. There was breach in Dec, 06 also. We have updated the post to reflect this information. Thank you!
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