Computer hacker incident prompts thousands of calls to Great Falls-based Davidson Companies
| January 31, 2008 |  View for printing |
Davidson Companies, the Great Falls-based financial services firm from which 226,000 clients' names and Social Security numbers were stolen by a computer hacker, fielded thousands of calls Wednesday, the day after the news was released.
A hacker broke into the company's database sometime in late December or early January, said company spokeswoman Jacquie Burchard. The break-in was discovered in mid-January and was reported to federal law enforcement authorities.
By JO DEE BLACK Tribune Business Editor
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