JPMorgan Hackers Said to Probe 13 Financial Firms

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The hackers who raided the data banks of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) used computers now linked to possible attacks on at least 13 more financial companies, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

More than a month after the JPMorgan hack was made public, it’s now clear that the perpetrators had attempted a broad campaign aimed at a payroll-servicing company, a popular stock brokerage and some of the world’s biggest banks. The depth of the JPMorgan breach and the scope of the intended targets have sent a shudder through Wall Street, even if the attackers had mixed success.

The group set its sights on companies including Citigroup Inc. (C), HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA), E*Trade Financial Corp. (ETFC), Regions Financial Corp. (RF) and Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP), the payroll firm, according to several people familiar with those companies’ internal probes who said the signs of intruders were found in the computers or logged by protective technology that effectively stopped the hackers.

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