DOJ investigates ATF official in possible data breach

An executive at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters is under investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for allegedly improperly accessing and downloading ATF employee data.

Except JPMorgan Chase, 9 financial organizations became victims of hackers

Some officials associated such attacks to the financial sector of United States sanctions against Russia.

Last week, the portal SecurityLab reported  about a large-scale data breach of 83 million customers of the JPMorgan Chase & Co bank. According to The New York Times, in addition to this financial organization, victims of hackers were even nine banks and broker companies.  According to a source of publication, familiar with the situation for all ten incidents is responsible one and the same group of attackers. The scale of the attacks and the names of the affected institutions are still unknown.

JP Morgan reveals data breach affected 76 million households

SAN FRANCISCO — The cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase & Co., first announced in July, compromised information from 76 million households and 7 million small businesses, the company revealed Thursday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contact information, including name, address, phone number and e-mail address, as well as internal JPMorgan Chase information about the users, was compromised, the filing said. However the bank said no customer money appears to have been stolen.