Thursday, October 2, 2014

JPMorgan Chase Says More Than 76 Million Accounts Were Compromised in Cyberattack

BREAKING NEWSThursday, October 2, 2014 5:26 PM EDT
JPMorgan Chase Says More Than 76 Million Accounts Were Compromised in Cyberattack
A cyberattack this summer on JPMorgan Chase compromised more than 76 million household accounts and 7 million small-business accounts, making it among the largest corporate hacks ever discovered.
The latest revelations, which were disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday, vastly dwarf earlier estimates that hackers had gained access to roughly 1 million customer accounts.
The new details about the extent of the hack — which began in June but was not discovered until July — sent JPMorgan scrambling for the second time in just three months to contain the fallout.

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http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/jpmorgan-discovers-further-cyber-security-issues/?emc=edit_na_20141002

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