Online trading and banking giant Scottrade has admitted that hackers successfully accessed their systems, gaining access to certain information on up to 4.6 million clients. The information accessed apparently includes just client names and street addresses. More sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and email addresses were not compromised. Scottrade is one of the US’s largest online trading firms. The more troubling part of Scottrade’s admission is that the hacking occurred nearly two years ago, in late 2013 to early 2014, but only came to Scottrade’s attention recently. And only via US federal law ... (full story)