JPMorgan Chase plays breach news close to the vest
The bank revealed the scope of a summer cyber attack that reportedly affected 76 million households in an SEC filing, but said no account information appears to have been stolen.
As customer data breaches become increasingly common, retailers and restaurants have established something of a protocol for them. Target, Nieman Marcus, Home Depot, P.F. Chang’s, Jimmy John’s, and quite a few others set up micro-sites as information clearinghouses and offered customers free credit monitoring.
JPMorgan Chase, which was hit by a cyber attack over the summer, isn’t doing that.
Rather than offering information about the breach through a microsite, the bank revealed the size of the breach in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday. According to the filing, 76 million households were affected.
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