Zacks is an American investment research company that provides its customers data-driven insights through a proprietary stock performance assessment tool called ‘Zacks Rank,’ to help with making informed financial decisions. Last year, Zacks reportedly suffered another data breach that exposed sensitive information related to roughly 12 million accounts.

The hacker claimed that they gained access to the company's active directory as a domain admin and then stole source code for Zacks.com, the main site, and 16 other websites, including some internal websites. The breached data was published in a hacker forum where members could avail full names, usernames, email addresses, physical addresses, and phone numbers for a small cryptocurrency amount.

Zacks has not confirmed the alleged breach but if the data leak proves to be the result of a new hack, it may be the third major data breach impacting the company in the past four years. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page