Banking Details on Dow Jones Subscribers Possibly Breached

It appears criminals hacked the Wall Street Journal-publisher’s systems to access customer contact information with the intent of sending deceptive mailings.  Dow Jones also owns MarketWatch and Barron’s.

The crooks possibly compromised payment card information, in the process.

Dow Jones notified potential victims in an Oct. 9 letter. Law enforcement officials informed the company of a possible breach in late July.

Dow Jones Chief Executive William Lewis said the data “could have been accessed, although we have discovered no direct evidence that information was stolen… It appears that the focus was to obtain contact information such as names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers of current and former subscribers in order to send fraudulent solicitations."