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JP Morgan Chase Breach Compromised Data of 76 Million Households
JakartaDean writes with news that the cyberattack on J.P. Morgan Chase this summer resulted in stolen information on 76 million households and 7 million businesses. The compromised data included names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses. The bank said the attackers were unable to gather account numbers, social security numbers, or passwords.
The hackers appeared to have obtained a list of the applications and programs that run on JPMorgan's computers — a road map of sorts — which they could crosscheck with known vulnerabilities in each program and web application, in search of an entry point back into the bank's systems, according to several people with knowledge of the results of the bank's forensics investigation, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity. ... Even if no customer financial information was taken, the apparent breadth and depth of the JPMorgan attack shows how vulnerable Wall Street institutions are to cybercrime.
Shhhh! You'll point out the groupthink's duplicity.
It's fine when it's about getting free shit even if that harms someone else's livelihood. Information wants to be free! But when it's YOUR info that's copied, even if you still have that info, well, that's very different, you see.
Prepare to be modded down for saying things people don't want to hear.
...they used to print all of that information up in a four-inch-thick book and leave it on your doorstep every six months or so. (Minus the email addresses, of course.)