Your credentials are worth...
... not even two dollars to your broker. Probably less than the black market would pay at that.
Brokerage coughs up $375,000 for website breach
US brokerage D.A. Davidson has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle charges that lax security practices allowed criminal hackers from Latvia to pilfer the confidential information of some 192,000 of its customers. The charges stem from an attack on December 25 and 25, 2007, in which the hackers downloaded the confidential data by …
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I hope
If I was one of those vicims, I'd demand my two dollars.
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