Hacker steals financial services company's client data

From the article found on Great Falls Tribune Online:

"A computer hacker broke into a Davidson Companies database and obtained the names and Social Security numbers of virtually all of the Great Falls financial services company's clients.

The database included information such as account numbers and balances, said Jacquie Burchard, spokeswoman for Davidson Companies. However, the hacker didn't get access to the accounts.

'People's accounts at Davidson are fine,' Burchard said. 'Their assets are fine.'

The risk is that the hacker could use the names and Social Security numbers to commit fraud or identity theft.

The computer hacker accessed information on 226,000 current and former clients, Burchard said."

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