#RSS 2.0 * Home * About Trials and Tribulations Read of my efforts to be an exemplary class rep. in the Elvey v. TD Ameritrade pump-n-dump spam and Identity Theft litigation. (I discovered the information security breach by which the Social Security Numbers of all 6.2 million AMTD customers were compromised and proved that known criminals had gained access to the database they were in. ) September 3, 2008 Declaration shreds proposed settlement, discloses threats, proposes remedies. Posted by Matthew Elvey under News No Comments Much is on the record now. I just filed this brief and this declaration with the court, prepared by my new counsel. We shred the proposed settlement. We mention (more…) August 20, 2008 Seeking: Heroic Whistleblower Posted by Matthew Elvey under News No Comments Help! I’m hoping a whistleblower will step up to provide additional info regarding the extent of the TD Ameritrade breach. (more…) July 11, 2008 What’s this all about? Posted by Matthew Elvey under News No Comments Criminals had gained ongoing access TD Ameritrade’s customer database back in October, 2005. This database contains customers names, addresses, mailing addresses, email addresses, trading histories, account numbers, dates of birth - oh, and social security numbers too. AMTD knew of and failed to fix the problem for TWO YEARS. How do I know this? (more…) June 16, 2008 TREND MICRO INTERNET SECURITY PRO Posted by Matthew Elvey under Settlement Component No Comments This IS a good piece of software. I’ve used it, and found it was roughly comparable to similar suites from the big guys: Norton/Symantec and McAffee. (Like all of them, it will cause problems on some PCs.) However, as a component of the settlement there are significant issues: (more…) June 14, 2008 Trials and Tribulations (trying to be a good class rep. in Elvey v. TD Ameritrade) Posted by Matthew Elvey under News No Comments Welcome to Trials and Tribulations, a.k.a. caringaboutsecurity.wordpress.com, a.k.a. AMTD.elvey.com. I’ve finally (belatedly!) started a blog where I can post about my case. I want a place where I can say things in my own words. I want to avoid spin, misquotations and misrepresentations. The issues in this case are often complicated. I’ve put too much of my heart and soul into this case to have things thrown off course. I have literally put months of my time into researching and bringing the complaint, and consistently following and attempting to fulfill my duties as class rep to the best of my ability. Wired has some coverage and some commentary on the case from yours truly (read all the way to the bottom of the wired threat level page). I’ll put up links to Google and google news and usenet and so forth as needed… Read of my efforts to be an exemplary class rep. in the Elvey v. TD Ameritrade pump-n-dump spam and Identity Theft litigation. I discovered the information security breach by which the Social Security Numbers of all 6.2 million AMTD customers were compromised and proved that criminals, namely identity thieves, had gained access to the database they were in. There are about a dozen settlement components I’d like to comment on, or have already commented on. I welcome your feedback; just use the form on the bottom of most pages on the site, including this one. * Pages + About * Search for: _______________ Search * Blogroll + My own Security Problem Reports + Trials and Tribulations * CircleID + CircleID (Ed Falk) Article 1: Ameritrade Leaks User Information Yet Again, Blames Hacker X * Network World + Network World (Mark Gibbs) Article 1: Ameritrade leaks… + Network World (Paul McNamara) Article 2: Ameritrade leak looks to have started in late ‘05, much earlier than reported + Network World (Paul McNamara) Article 3: Judge halts Ameritrade settlement that would mean a boon for lawyers, a pittance for victims + Network World (Robert X. Cringely) Article 5: Caught with their breaches down + Network World (Tim Greene) Article 4: Ameritrade customers vent about data breach * Wired + Wired (Threat Level) Article 1: Ameritrade Settling Hacking Lawsuit + Wired (Threat Level) Article 2: Judge Weighing Ameritrade Hack Lawsuit Settlement — UPDATE and with important comments. + Wired (Threat Level) Article 3: Judge Scuttles Ameritrade Hacking Settlement + Wired (Threat Level) Article 4: Ameritrade Settling Hacking Lawsuit * CAPTION: September 2008M T W T F S S « Aug 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Blog at WordPress.com. — Theme: Connections by www.vanillamist.com