With the huge hacker attack on the U.S. banking giant JPMorgan tens of millions of accounts have been spied on. According to the Institute 76 million households and seven million companies
were affected. From a hacker attack on the U.S. banking giant JPMorgan Chase are, according to recent data of the Institute in past summer, tens of millions of accounts have been affected. How the money house announced on Thursday, it was 76 million households and seven million companies. Thus, the hacker came up mainly of the names and addresses of customers. However, there was no evidence that sensitive data such as bank account or social security numbers had been captured.
The cyber attack on the computer systems of the Bank had happened in August. At that time, the institute announced to investigate the attack in cooperation with the authorities. According to the authorities, other banks were attacked.
Investigators suspect that the attack from Russia comes
According to Bloomberg information, the attacker procured access to more than 100 servers, where the data be stored. The attack began, therefore, as if they had access to the network provides with the login details of an employee. The investigators believed that the attack from Russia come, it said, citing informed people. After becoming aware of the hacker attack, among other things, the FBI had turned on in the investigation.
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The attack hit data of customers, the online services of JPMorgan used on the web or via mobile apps. In early reports, it had been called, and account data could be affected. However, the attacker could use the captured basic information in order to access more data.
The American financial industry and trading company had become target of several large-scale hacker attacks in recent months. So the retailer Target credit card details were stolen tens of millions of customers. Just recently, up to 56 million credit card records were captured at the Home Depot.
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