Tom Joyner News: JPMorgan Reveals Data Breach Hit 76 Million Households!
JPMorgan Chase was hit by a massive data breach this summer, and now the bank is disclosing how much data the hackers could have gotten their hands on. Brace yourselves, the numbers aren’t pretty.
In SEC filings released Thursday, JPMorgan says 76 million households and 7 million small businesses had their data compromised during the breach. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and email accounts were all vulnerable during the breach.
But the banking giant did reassure its customers, “There is no evidence that your account numbers, passwords, user IDs, date of birth or Social Security number were compromised during this attack.”
JPMorgan’s computer systems were first compromised in June, but the company didn’t discover the breach until late July. The intrusion prompted an investigation by the FBI.
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