[Dataloss] Security breach hits online brokerage

[security curmudgeon]

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By Roma Luciw
August 28, 2007

Online broker TradeFreedom Securities Inc. has quietly notified an 
unidentified number of its customers that a computer security breach has 
compromised some of their personal information, potentially exposing them 
to fraud.

In what it described as a follow-up to an Aug. 17 notice to clients, it 
said in a Friday e-mail that it had finished its investigation into the 
"recent unauthorized intrusion" of one of its computer systems.

"We have subsequently determined that, despite our security systems in 
place at the time, this unauthorized intrusion has also resulted in the 
compromise of some of your personal information," TradeFreedom said. "This 
information is your name, social insurance number, city, province and 
postal code."

Citing a continuing police investigation by the Sret du Qubec, 
TradeFreedom president Bruce Seago said he could not release any details 
about the nature or timing of the computer security breach.

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