By John Glenday

JP Morgan Chase has admitted it has been the victim of the world’s largest ever data breach after 76m household accounts and 7m small business accounts were compromised by unknown hackers.

The security failure saw millions of personal records for customers; including phone numbers, lost although the US bank is adamant that no financial information, social security numbers or passwords were obtained.

So brazen were the hackers that they rifled through the banks data for a month before staff cottoned on to what was happening.

To date JP Morgan has not been made aware of any unauthorised transactions taking place in consequence of Read full story ›

Source: The Drum