Data breach at Fidelity affects over 77,000 customers.

One of the leading financial services and asset management companies has suffered a security breach. According to a recent notice filed with the Maine Attorney General's Office, Fidelity Investments was the target of a cyberattack. More than 77,000 clients have had their sensitive personal information compromised. In a letter sent to the affected clients, Fidelity reported that between August 17 and 19, an unauthorized third party accessed and obtained certain information using two recently created customer accounts.

Upon detecting the breach on August 19, Fidelity stated that access to its systems by the intruder was immediately cut off. However, it remains unclear what specific personal data was stolen and how the attacker managed to access private information from 77,099 customer accounts with only two newly established accounts. According to Fidelity, customers' accounts in general were not compromised. Additionally, the company indicated that those affected represent a small segment of its base of over 50 million clients. Fidelity will offer the affected clients two years of credit monitoring services.

This incident with Fidelity is just one more in a series of data breaches that have affected users this week. Comcast, MoneyGram, and the Internet Archive have also notified their clients and users that their information has been stolen in similar incidents.