http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/tdameritrade http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/tdameritrade Estimates pegged TD Ameritrade's initial security breach to, approximately, October 2006. Well, they were wrong. Network World got ahold of emails from a security expert to Ameritrade dating back to January 9, 2006. Valleywag commenter Snarkosaurus claims to have evidence that the online stock broker was hacked as early as December 2005. Not only does this mean Ameritrade was hacked almost two years ago, but the company has known about it for an equal span of time. The reason the company offered for not notifying the 6 million or so affected accounts sooner? It didn't know how the information was getting out, so there was nothing it could have done. If you work for Ameritrade security, apparently ignorance is bliss.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=301579&view=rss&microfeed=true Is it sheer pride that prohibits companies from admitting the fallibility of their data servers? TD Ameritrade is the latest in a string of security-breach deniers. Possibly hacked as early as October 2006, Ameritrade's servers divulged users' names, addresses, email accounts and account activity. When email accounts were pumped full of spam messages, a couple users sued Ameritrade in late May — indicating that there was a breach. Ameritrade delayed issuing an official release until last Friday, conveniently timed to beat a lawsuit that sought a court ordered release.

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