HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceCapture Stored DataData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Scottrade Financial Services, Inc.

bd_5160d22e69e17561 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Oct 1, 2015

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

78%

Full breach record for Scottrade Financial Services, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Scottrade, Inc. (brokerage, Member FINRA/SIPC) suffered unauthorized access to a client database over a period of several months between late 2013 and early 2014. Federal law enforcement officials informed Scottrade of the breach, which involved theft of client names and street addresses; SSNs and email addresses were present but contact information was the primary target. Clients were notified on October 2, 2015, with AllClear ID identity protection offered.

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Incident timeline

Oct 1, 2013

Begins

Oct 1, 2015

Filed

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_7a88db0d173afd492015-10-02 · +1dVerified
Washington State AGbd_ec3a31595e6b58072015-09-30 · +1dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_8452bf34661dd7b22015-09-25 · +6dCandidate
Hawaii State AGbd_6308d977824ec33d2015-10-12 · +11dVerified

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South Carolina State AGbd_62c750d424228c7f2015-10-14 · +13dVerified

Name: Scottrade Financial Services, Inc.
norm: scottrade financial

Name: Scottrade Financial Services, Inc.
norm: scottrade financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Oct 1, 2013 – Mar 31, 2014
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 2, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified California Attorney General per SB 24 data breach reporting requirementCoordinated with federal law enforcement prior to client notification

During the incident: Immediately initiated a comprehensive response upon notification from federal law enforcement
Conducted an internal data forensics investigation with assistance from a leading computer security firm
Secured the known intrusion point
Fully cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation and prosecution of the criminals involved
Arranged with AllClear ID to provide one year of identity repair and protection services at no cost to affected clients
Changes made: Taken appropriate steps to further strengthen our network defenses
Committed to continually strengthening and evolving our defenses based on new and emerging threats
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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New Hampshire State AGSep 25 · first

Washington State AG+5d

California State AG+6d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Hawaii State AG+17d

South Carolina State AG+19d

Pattern: first filing Sep 25 (NH), last Oct 14 (SC) — a 19-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-58084
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 1, 2015
Raw hash: 7f194216b39697e68b5f7efb81f6c0b28b2f419988a64ef01477019fda132eb4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityScottrade Financial Services, Inc.

Victim entityScottrade Financial Services, Inc.

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseImmediately initiated a comprehensive response upon notification from federal law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov