{"id":232,"date":"2015-10-13T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/?p=232"},"modified":"2015-10-21T17:13:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:13:47","slug":"scottrade-data-breach-affects-4-6-million-accounts-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/scottrade-data-breach-affects-4-6-million-accounts-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottrade Data Breach Affects 4.6 Million Accounts | Cyber Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/?attachment_id=237\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-237\" title=\"ThinkstockPhotos-479801118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThinkstockPhotos-479801118-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Data Breach\" width=\"453\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThinkstockPhotos-479801118-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThinkstockPhotos-479801118-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Earlier this month on October 1<sup>st<\/sup>, Scottrade announced that they had suffered a data breach affecting 4.6 million of their customers. Federal law enforcements informed Scottrade that they had been investigating the cybersecurity crimes involving theft of information from Scottrade and other finical services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on our investigation and information provided by federal authorities\u201d Scottrade states in a post on their website \u201cwe believe the illegal activity involving our network occurred between late 2013 and early 2014, and targeted client names and street addresses.\u201d The attackers were able to take contact details from the system they hacked into, despite the system having sensitive data such as Social Security numbers, it appeared that the contact information was the focus of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>In the post the company also states \u201cWe have no reason to believe that Scottrade\u2019s 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.\u201d But despite believing that Social Security numbers were not compromised, Scottrade will being offering those 4.5 million affected customer\u2019s identity protection services.<\/p>\n<p>Scottrade has now secured the intrusion point and has even conducted their own internal data forensics investigation on the incident with assistance from a top computer security firm, while also fully cooperating with authorities. As you can tell the company has since taken the appropriate action to strengthen their network defenses. <a href=\"https:\/\/about.scottrade.com\/updates\/cybersecurity.html\">Click Here to Read Scottrade\u2019s Cyber Security Update.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u2019re interested in staying protected from cybersecurity risks, contact Up &amp; Running Computer Solutions in Corona, CA at 951-737-8558 or visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urcs.net\">www.urcs.net<\/a> for information regarding the services we offer. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Proudly serving Corona, Riverside, Anaheim, Irvine, Newport Beach, Tustin, and all surrounding areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month on October 1st, Scottrade announced that they had suffered a data breach affecting 4.6 million of their customers. Federal law enforcements informed Scottrade that they had been investigating the cybersecurity crimes involving theft of information from Scottrade and other finical services. \u201cBased on our investigation and information provided by federal authorities\u201d Scottrade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[65,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}