A security\u00a0hack at JPMorgan Chase & co is certain to go down in history. Seventy-six\u00a0million households and\u00a0seven\u00a0million businesses had their names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses exposed.\u00a0The breach is said to\u00a0have exposed personal information of former account holders and people who entered contact information at the bank’s online and mobile sites as well as that of customers.<\/p>\n
When the company first discovered the data intrusion of July 2014, they announced only one million customers were affected. Although this is a large number, it pales it comparison to the actual number of affected customers. To stop the security breech, the bank\u00a0closed access paths to its servers and began working with the FBI to trace the source to Russian cyber crooks.<\/p>\n
JPMorgan is still enthusiastic that the hacks were not as bad as they could have been. He said no fraudulent activities resulting from the attacks were discovered. Further in a statement he said, “There is no evidence that account information for such affected customers\u2014account numbers, passwords, user IDs, dates of birth or social security numbers\u2014was compromised during this attack.”<\/p>\n
Even though there is no evidence of fraud, experts were wary about the possibility of other fraudulent activities such as identity theft.<\/p>\n
JPMorgan & Chase is reportedly advising its customers that they don\u2019t need to change passwords, and it’s not offering free credit report monitoring for those affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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