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?
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