From the Globe & Mail:
Online broker TradeFreedom Securities Inc. has quietly notified an unidentified number of its customers that a computer security breach has compromised some of their personal information, potentially exposing them to fraud.
In what it described as a follow-up to an Aug. 17 notice to clients, it said in a Friday e-mail that it had finished its investigation into the “recent unauthorized intrusion” of one of its computer systems.
“We have subsequently determined that, despite our security systems in place at the time, this unauthorized intrusion has also resulted in the compromise of some of your personal information,” TradeFreedom said. “This information is your name, social insurance number, city, province and postal code.”
Citing a continuing police investigation by the Sûreté du Québec, TradeFreedom president Bruce Seago said he could not release any details about the nature or timing of the computer security breach.
“We are dealing with our customers on a case-by-case basis and communicating directly with them based on how they have been impacted, if at all, by this situation. Not all of our customers have been,” he said, adding that “not every single customer was impacted in the exact same way.”
The firm was recently picked up by the Bank of Nova Scotia however, the deal has apparently not yet closed.
[tags]Data Security, Privacy, Online Breach, TradeFreedom Hacked[/tags]