Morgan Stanley probes leak, sale of client data

New York

IN mid-December, a posting appeared on the Internet site Pastebin offering six million account records, including passwords and login data for clients of Morgan Stanley.

Two weeks later, a new posting on the information-sharing site offered a teaser of actual records from 1,200 accounts, and provided a link for people interested in purchasing more, according to a person briefed on the matter. The link pointed to a website that sells digital files for virtual currencies such as bitcoin. In this case, the files were being sold for a more obscure currency, Speedcoin.