http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/morgan-stanley-probe-said-to-examine-whether-adviser-got-hacked
By Michael J Moore
Bloomberg Business
February 18, 2015
Bloomberg -- A U.S. probe into how Morgan Stanley client information ended
up for sale on the Internet is examining whether a financial adviser was
targeted by hackers after he took data from the bank, two people briefed
on the inquiry said.
While Galen Marsh was dismissed for obtaining information on as many as
350,000 wealth-management clients, his lawyer said last month that the
30-year-old financial adviser didn’t seek to sell or use it for personal
gain. Federal investigators are trying to determine whether his computer
was breached after he removed data from the firm, the people said. There’s
no evidence Morgan Stanley’s own computers were hacked, said one of the
people, who’s familiar with the company’s review.
“Right from the beginning, we have stated very clearly, that Mr. Marsh had
nothing to do with any information being posted on the Internet,” Marsh’s
lawyer, Robert C. Gottlieb of Gottlieb & Gordon LLP, said Wednesday in a
phone interview.
Morgan Stanley, owner of the world’s largest brokerage, has sought to
contain the fallout since learning in December that someone had posted
information about 900 customers on the website Pastebin and asked
potential buyers to pay for more with a virtual currency. The firm said
last month that it had the data promptly removed from public view and that
it notified law enforcement.
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