In October, the company disclosed that its computer systems had been hacked. As part of that disclosure, Dow Jones chief executive officer William Lewis said that some customer payment information may have been compromised -- on no more than 3,500 accounts -- and that it was unknown whether other information had been taken.
Earlier in October, Scottrade disclosed that it had been hacked and that information on 4.6 million customers had been taken.
‘Interesting Info’
According to the indictment, Shalon and a co-conspirator expanded their efforts to seek material non-public information from firms they were hacking. In one e-mail, they referred to seeking “interesting info” from top managers at Victim 5, a St. Louis brokerage firm now confirmed as Scottrade.
A spokeswoman for Dow Jones said in a statement: "The indictment unsealed today refers to the public disclosure we made on October 9. The government’s investigation is ongoing, and we continue to cooperate with law enforcement."
The hack of Fidelity has been previously reported. The company said it has no indication that any customer accounts, customer information or related systems were affected. E*Trade confirmed it was attacked in late 2013 but declined to provide more information.
“We continue to cooperate with law enforcement in fighting cybercrime,” JPMorgan spokeswoman Trish Wexler said in a statement.
Since 2007
Shalon began building his criminal conglomerate in 2007 with Internet casinos and capped it off with stock and credit- card schemes years later, according to the 68-page indictment against Shalon and others in Manhattan.
Shalon and his associates operated at least a dozen online “real money” casinos in the U.S. from 2007 until this year, raking in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and, in some months, millions in profit. By December 2013, Shalon was paying 270 casino employees in Hungary and Ukraine, the indictment said.