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Brokerage firm victim of elaborate extortion scheme – but also gets hit with a fine

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Brokerage firm DA Davidson has agreed to pay a fine of $375,000 for failing to protect confidential client data from Latvian hackers who breached the company in 2007 in an online extortion scheme and the three have pleaded guilty in Montana. The hackers used a SQL injection attack to obtain access to the company’s database… Continue Reading