What’s this website all about? (old, sticky post)

Criminals had gained ongoing access TD Ameritrade’s customer database back in October, 2005.  This database contains 6.3 million+ customers’ names, addresses, mailing addresses, email addresses, trading histories, account numbers, dates of birth – oh, and social security numbers too.  AMTD knew of and failed to fix the problem for TWO YEARS.  How do I know this?

 

Protected: Ted Frank, fellow of the American Enterprise Institute / Center for Class Action Fairness is a b** f** i****.

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Acknowledgements

Thank Yous are due to many folks who helped me in this mission.

 

New warning to TD Ameritrade customers

If you have a TD Ameritrade account and use M$ Windows, you should read this Washington Post article.  Kudos to Brian Krebs; he is doing truly excellent work!

 

Waiting for go-ahead to seek New Counsel. Needs & recent successes.

I hope to be seeking new counsel soon (i.e. new lawyers to represent me AND the class on a contingency basis).

 

Suicide? (Defending myself — evidence of false and defamatory statements by Scott Kamber, Bob Kris, and company at KamberEdelson and TD Ameritrade, perhaps including Jay Edelson and Ethan Preston)

I don’t understand why Scott Kamber, Bob Kris, and the rest at KamberEdelson and TD Ameritrade persist in attacking me, as they spent much time doing at the 9/15/08 hearing.   Their attacks to date have consisted of claims that not only are not backed up by evidence, they are actually refuted by it.

Surely, they’re too smart to not realize that persuasion only goes so far in the face of cold hard evidence.

 

Declaration shreds proposed settlement, discloses threats, proposes remedies.

Much is on the record now.  I just filed this brief and this declaration with the court, prepared by my new counsel.

We shred the proposed settlement.  We mention

 

Seeking: Heroic Whistleblower

Help!  I’m hoping a whistleblower will step up to provide additional info regarding the extent of the TD Ameritrade breach.

 

TREND MICRO INTERNET SECURITY PRO

This IS a good piece of software.

I’ve used it, and found it was roughly comparable to similar suites from the big guys: Norton/Symantec and McAffee. (Like all of them, it will cause problems on some PCs.)

However, as a component of the settlement there are significant issues:

 

Trials and Tribulations (trying to be a good class rep. in Elvey v. TD Ameritrade)

Welcome to Trials and Tribulations, a.k.a. caringaboutsecurity.wordpress.com, a.k.a. AMTD.elvey.com.

I’ve finally (belatedly!) started a blog where I can post about my case.  I want a place where I can say things in my own words.  I want to avoid spin, misquotations and misrepresentations.  The issues in this case are often complicated.  I’ve put too much of my heart and soul into this case to have things thrown off course.  I have literally put months of my time into researching and bringing the complaint, and consistently following and attempting to fulfill my duties as class rep to the best of my ability.

Wired has some coverage and some commentary on the case from yours truly (read all the way to the bottom of the wired threat level page).  I’ll put up links to Google and google news and usenet and so forth as needed…

Read of my efforts to be an exemplary class rep. in the Elvey v. TD Ameritrade, Inc. pump-n-dump spam and Identity Theft litigation.

I discovered the information security breach by which the Social Security Numbers of all 6.2 million AMTD customers were compromised and proved that criminals, namely identity thieves, had gained access to the database they were in.

There are about a dozen settlement components I’d like to comment on, or have already commented on.  I welcome your feedback; just use the form on the bottom of most pages on the site, including this one.