FXCM Attacked by Hackers, is being investigated FBI

Yesterday (1/10), US-based forex brokers, FXCM, surprisingly giving notice to his clients that his firm became victims of the attacks have occurred cybersecurity and access by parties not liable to customer information. In other words: FXCM has been hacked.

According to the official announcement of FXCM, they receive an email from hackers who claim to have gained access to the information of the clients. In addition, FXCM also said that there is "a small number of unauthorized wire transfers from customer accounts". Therefore, FXCM appealed to all clients and recommend them to reset the password.

Not yet known how many accounts were affected by this incident, but FXCM declare all funds have been sent back to the client, and now they are being held internal investigation on the matter. Broker headquartered in New York has also been reported to the FBI and is currently cooperating in the investigation.

Notice of the incident, FinanceMagnates find similarities in the illegal transactions were also attacked banks and other financial companies. The attacks usually started by Trojan, which is used as an intermediary by hackers to gain access to the target client and pull data in their accounts such as names and passwords.

Wall Street Journal highlighted the fact that a hacker attack in the financial industry may occur more often than we know. Thomas Peterffy of Interactive Brokers Inc. told the WSJ that online attacks are irresponsible is a big problem for forex brokers. Interactive Brokers also have experienced a DDoS attack. According to Frederic Ponzo of consultants GreySpark Partners, hacking incidents in the financial industry is not only aimed to gain information about the trader, but also get into the system to make trades using the account information has been taken over hacker.