Business JP Morgan’s 76 Million Customer Accounts Hacked

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JP Morgan yesterday revealed that it suffered a massive cyber attack on 76 million private and seven million business customers in the US. The hacker got name and addresses of account holders but did not involve critical information such as account and social security numbers, the bank said.

Excerpt from UK's Guardian:

JP Morgan Chase, one of the largest banks in the US, said on Thursday that a massive computer hack affected the accounts of 76 million households and about seven million small businesses, making it one of the largest of its kind ever discovered.

The attack was under way for a month before it was discovered in July, and when it was disclosed in August, the bank estimated that about one million accounts had been compromised. But the latest information revealed on Thursday showed the attack was vastly more serious than earlier thought.

The bank said financial information was not compromised and that there had been no breach of login information such as account or social security numbers, passwords or dates of birth. However names, email addresses, phone numbers and addresses of account holders were captured by hackers.

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