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IBFX's Annus Horribilis
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Old 04-30-2008, 05:38 PM
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Default IBFX's Annus Horribilis

It has not been a good year for Interbank FX. First FXLQ goes down resulting in the firm losing a key liquidity provider. Then FXLQ goes into receivership taking $10 million of IBFX's net capital with it. Now IBFX has just announced to the public that there was a major security breach and that customers who had applied for an account prior to April 2, 2007, had their personal information exposed on a rogue server accessible to anyone on the internet.
http://doj.nh.gov/consumer/pdf/interbank.pdf

To IBFX's credit they appear to have taken immediate steps to secure the information and are offering those customers who were potentially exposed free membership to a credit monitoring company. I'm not familiar with Corporate Law but it appears IBFX hired Kirkland & Ellis to contact State Attorneys General about this? Pretty Intensive damage control by the folks at Interbank.

But considering the news has broken all over the net well outside the forex community best to cover all bases I guess:
interbankfx security breach - Google Search

Let's hope Robert Gray hasn't been lurking around this rogue server all this time...
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