http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20100411/REG/304119985 By Bruce Kelly Investment News April 11, 2010 LPL Financial yet again has fallen prey to a technology blunder that placed private client information at risk. An unencrypted portable hard drive was stolen from the car of an LPL representative Feb. 24, according to a letter sent last month by LPL to the attorney general of New Hampshire. The adviser, Christian D'Urso of StoneRidge Wealth Management in Beaverton, Ore., had one client in New Hampshire, the letter said. As a result of the theft, private client information, including names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers .may have been breached,. Marc Loewenthal, LPL's senior vice president and chief security and privacy officer, wrote in the letter. This isn't the first time LPL has had to deal with a security lapse involving one of its reps. In 2007, the firm reported that computer hackers had compromised the login passwords of 14 financial advisers and four assistants [1]. [1] http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/0809/15338.html [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Sun Apr 11 2010 - 22:25:25 PDT
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