What can a company do? A company like Chase is in the financial industry — they undoubtedly have a robust internal department that should be concentrating on updates and patches.
Instead, an MSP can help them ensure that nothing is missed. Attacks can be extremely difficult to avoid. In the case of Chase, they were the victim of a targeted attack.
Many companies will find themselves eventually compromised by such an attack. Companies need to be prepared to identify attacks and respond very quickly if an attack does breach their systems.
Morgan only noticed the attack because the hacker made a mistake; they were compromised for two months. This is very common. Some large organizations are compromised for over a year before they notice. In fact, finding the attack in only two months was pretty good.
Many similarly sized attacks have taken much longer to notice. However, J. Gradually, she told me, it became evident that Chase suspected she was complicit in the fraud. How else to explain all the details the scammer knew about her and the degree of access he had to her account? So Denton set about proving her innocence. It was made via the Chase. Moreover, the records showed that the Chase site had been accessed with a Mac computer.
That too provided a pretty solid alibi. Denton is an executive with Texas-based Dell, maker of personal computers and laptops that run the Windows operating system. Nevertheless, Denton said, Chase refused to back down. So she contacted me last week to see if I could help.
I in turn reached out to Chase and walked a company exec through the known facts. The whole thing appeared to have been an elaborate ruse by a con artist to obtain the password necessary to initiate an online cash transfer. I asked if it seemed as though Chase customers often have to struggle to resolve incidents of fraud. David Lazarus is an award-winning business columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
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Stranded sailors rely on this Walmart of the seas. COVID made it hard to stay afloat. Clearly, Chase's assurances are for some, not all customers. The company -- one of the largest banks in the US -- has said there's no evidence that account numbers, passwords, user IDs, Social Security numbers or birth dates were exposed; in addition, JPMorgan has not seen any "unusual customer fraud related to this incident.
Troia said that customers are only as safe as JPMorgan Chase says -- if customers haven't reused their passwords across Chase services, or if they have two-factor authorization turned on.
However, most people reuse passwords and few have two-factor turned on -- because both extra steps make it less easy for customers to use the service. Unfortunately, the reality is that there will be more than a few people that have their password in that database and also use their same password to access their chase account.
So think about it from the perspective of a thief. If you steal everyone's passwords then the company will force everyone to change them and it becomes completely worthless. So instead, you take the other pieces of information; the two most important being the email address and associated service.
Now the thieves can just pair the email address against their 1. And a good number of those people will have recycled passwords because that's just what people do. So the theft of 76 million JPMorgan accounts is actually worth infinitely more without the passwords. According the Guardian, "The attack was under way for a month before it was discovered in July. Why business leaders must be security leaders. We offer guidance on how to close the IT security governance gap. A SEC filing revealed Thursday that in fact the personal information of 83 million accounts were exposed when JP Morgan Chase's computer systems were hacked into.
The exposed database, Chase says, consists of customer names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses. It's being widely reported that the entry point was through a compromised app used by the company, but details are not being reported sensibly, so it remains to be seen at this time what the facts around the breach actually are.
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