Fidelity says data breach exposed personal data of 77,000 customers

Fidelity Investments, one of the world's largest asset managers, has confirmed that over 77,000 customers had personal information compromised during an August data breach, including Social Security numbers and driver's licenses. The Boston, Massachusetts-based investment firm said in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Wednesday that an unnamed third party accessed information from its systems between August 17 and August 19 "using two customer accounts that they had recently established.” “We detected this activity on August 19 and immediately took steps to terminate the access,” Fidelity said in a letter sent to those affected, adding that the incident did not involve any access to customers’ Fidelity accounts.