Hackers hit US stockbroker TD Ameritrade

Only email addresses? Yea right...

Stock broking firm TD Ameritrade has revealed a breach to one of its databases resulting in the theft of user data.

The company confirmed that, while online account numbers and passwords were not compromised, customer names, email addresses and phone numbers had all been stolen.

The database also contains Social Security numbers, although TD Ameritrade claimed that there is no evidence to suggest that the numbers were among the stolen data.

A spokesperson for the company told vnunet.com that the compromised database stored information on all of the company's 6.3 million customer accounts. It is not yet known how many customers were directly affected.

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