Chase Bank Hacked, Info Stolen for 83 Million Accounts

 

Last night, JPMorgan Chase & Co revealed the scope of a data breach that affects 83 million households and small business accounts. There's good news and there's bad news.

The bad news is hackers have stolen the contact information for 76 million households—that's nearly 65% of all US households!—and 7 million small businesses: names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. This makes this latest data breach one of the biggest in history. The information may also include former account holders, Reuters says, not just current ones.

The good news, however, is that Chase has no evidence that passwords, account numbers, user IDs, birthdates, or Social Security numbers had been stolen. And it hasn't seen any "unusual customer fraud" since the cyber-attack happened in mid-August