Add Scottrade to the hacked list

[allisolm]

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/02/technology/scottrrade-hack/index.html

Scottrade was hacked and information on 4.6 million customers taken. The breach affected those who signed up for a Scottrade brokerage account before February 2014.

Names and physical addresses as well as emails and Social Security numbers were in the database but Scottrade said that it does not believe the SS#s and emails were stolen. Scottrade is now offering one year of free identity protection.

 

[BUTCH1]

It's coming from Russia. The entire country has become the rash on the worlds internet ass. Every IP address emanating from Russia should be banned, cables physically destroyed, whatever it takes.

 

[destrekor]

It's coming from Russia. The entire country has become the rash on the worlds internet ass. Every IP address emanating from Russia should be banned, cables physically destroyed, whatever it takes.

The entire Eastern Bloc, really.

A company I was working for had their website hacked. I was able to restore it and looked into the IP history and regional analysis and whatnot... Ukraine IPs were the top visitors. China was up there but not nearly as much, and it seemed to be mostly from Baidu crawlers I think. But the Ukrainian IPs weren't even in Russian-contested regions: Lviv and Kiev I think were the results of the IP traces.

Then again, those could simply be proxies. :hmm:
Russia's never up to any good.

 

[BUTCH1]

The entire Eastern Bloc, really.

A company I was working for had their website hacked. I was able to restore it and looked into the IP history and regional analysis and whatnot... Ukraine IPs were the top visitors. China was up there but not nearly as much, and it seemed to be mostly from Baidu crawlers I think. But the Ukrainian IPs weren't even in Russian-contested regions: Lviv and Kiev I think were the results of the IP traces.

Then again, those could simply be proxies. :hmm:
Russia's never up to any good.

Exactly. They run an ad's on CL in the jobs section looking for someone with warehouse experience then reply in "Renglish" they need good partner in US of A to buy stuff for them via cashiers checks. Tons of these ad's, I forwarded every listing to the FBI.

 

[theeedude]

I might bail on Scottrade after this. They still don't have 2 factor authentication. They are just out to lunch security wise.

 

[MustISO]

Two factor authentication may help in some cases but many of these hacks are not all that complex. Someone with keys to the kingdom opens an email with an attachment or falls for a phishing email and the hackers are in with very little effort. I'd love to see a third party audit of their security protocols. I'm sure it'll be a mess like what was found in the OPM breach.

 

[Aharami]

aw crap

 

[Jeff7]

Encrypt and salt the database? Naaaahhhhh.....

 

[TheGardener]

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[Herr Kutz]

So which broker would you guys recommend for low frequency trading?

 

[Jeff7]

So which broker would you guys recommend for low frequency trading?

Why not Scottrade?

Any others out there might have lousy internal security, too.
Assuming their management learned from this experience, they'll now invest a bit more into properly securing their servers and data.



"There are two kinds of big companies in the United States: There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese." - FBI Director James Comey