The investment firm, Fidelity Investments has confirmed a data breach that happened in August where personal data of 77,000 customers were compromised which includes Social Security numbers and driver's licenses.
The company in a filing with Maine’s attorney general said that information from its systems has been accessed by an unnamed third party between August 17 and August 19 "using two customer accounts that they had recently established.”
A letter has been sent to those who have been affected mentioning “we detected this activity on August 19 and immediately took steps to terminate the access”. The letter also stated that the incident did not involve any access to customers’ Fidelity accounts.
Fidelity confirmed that a total of 77,099 customers were affected by the breach, and its completed review of the compromised data determined that customers' personal information was affected.
In a separate data breach notice filed with New Hampshire's attorney general, Fidelity disclosed that a third party had accessed and obtained documents related to Fidelity customers and others by submitting fraudulent requests to an internal database containing document images associated with these individuals.
As per the separate data breach notice filed by Fidelity with the Massachusetts' attorney general, Fidelity mentioned that the data breach includes customers' Social Security numbers and driver's licenses. According to Fidelity, the company has more than 51 million individual investors as customers, counting some $14.1 trillion in total customer assets as of June 2024.
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