Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) disclosed a data breach, the security incident may have affected the personal information of its 820,000 customers.
“On December 28, 2022, Zacks learned that an unknown third-party had gained unauthorized access to certain customer records described below. We believe the unauthorized access occurred sometime between November 2021 and August 2022.” reads the notice of data breach. “Upon this discovery, Zacks took immediate action to implement additional security measures to our network, and to investigate and understand the scope of the incident.”
Zacks is the leading investment research firm focusing on stock research, analysis, and recommendations.
The company discovered the intrusion at the end of 2022, it believes the unauthorized access took place sometime between November 2021 and August 2022.
According to the notice, threat actors had access to an older database of customers who had signed up for the Zacks Elite product between November 1999 through February 2005.
