Over 77,000 customers’ personal information is exposed in Fidelity Investments data breach


Fidelity Investments reported in a filing with Maine’s attorney general that an unnamed third party accessed information from its systems using two recently established customer accounts.

It did not say how the creation of two Fidelity customer accounts allowed access to the data of thousands of other customers. The breach occurred between Aug. 17 and 19 when an attacker accessed customer names and other personal identifiers, including Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses.

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Source: MSN News


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