Morgan Stanley Breach Put Client Data Up for Sale on Pastebin, an Online Site
By NATHANIEL POPPER JANUARY 5, 2015 Updated, 9:29 p.m. | In mid-December, a posting appeared on the Internet site Pastebin offering six million account records, including passwords and login data for clients of Morgan Stanley. Two weeks later, a new posting on the information-sharing site offered a teaser of actual records from 1,200 accounts, and provided a link for people interested in purchasing more, according to a person briefed on the matter. The link pointed to a website that sells digital files for virtual currencies like Bitcoin. In this case, the files were being sold for a more obscure currency, Speedcoin. The offer was quickly taken down the same day, Dec. 27, after Morgan Stanley discovered the leak. In short order, the bank traced the breach to a financial adviser working out of its New York offices, a 30-year-old named Galen Marsh, according to a person involved in the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity. ... http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/morgan-stanley-fires-employee-saying-data-on-350000-clients-was-stolen/ _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews_etskywarn.net
