Interactive Brokers Notifies 600 Clients of Data Breach

Interactive Brokers was hit with a data breach in January, according to a notice filed May 16 with the attorney general of Massachusetts. The broker-dealer discovered that an unauthorized party was able to gain access to an employee’s email account.

The incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access consumers’ sensitive information, which includes their names, Social Security numbers, financial account information and driver’s license numbers, according to a post by the personal injury law firm Console and Associates on JD Supra, a legal information site.

Interactive Brokers told ThinkAdvisor Wednesday that the BD has “notified approximately 600 clients of a very limited business email compromise of only a few IB employee email accounts by an unknown malicious actor. There is no evidence that any client’s information was subject to actual or attempted misuse as a result of this incident, and there is no evidence that there was any unauthorized access to any client’s account, or to any of IBKR’s systems.”

Data privacy and security, Interactive Brokers said, “are among the Firm’s highest priorities, and we have extensive measures in place to help protect information in the Firm’s care.”