But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse
Fidelity Investments has notified 77,099 people that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach.
The mega asset manager has not disclosed what data the digital crooks nabbed, but assured customers that the security snafu"did not involve any access to your Fidelity account." In a letter sent to affected individuals, Fidelity said the break-in happened between August 17 and August 19 when"a third party accessed and obtained certain information without authorization using two customer accounts that they had recently established." [, a Fidelity spokesperson repeated the breach disclosure statement, and told us:"We are notifying individuals as appropriate and providing them credit monitoring resources.
Fidelity noted that it spotted the intruders on August 19, and took"immediate" actions to kick them out of its IT systems. It also hired an external security firm to investigate the breach. Fidelity claims the information obtained by the data thieves only"related to For context: the asset manager says it has more than 51.5 million individuals as customers, and manages employee benefit programs for about 28,000 businesses across 11 countries. As of June, Fidelity had about $5.5 trillion in customer assets under management, and around $14.1 trillion in assets under administration.
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