The Financial Times reports that 13 other financial institutions, including Fidelity Investments, were also targeted by the same hackers who recently stole 76 million households’ information from JPMorgan Chase.

The FBI and the Secret Service are investigating the attacks, though a Fidelity spokesman told the FT that no customer information appears to have been accessed.

“We take security very seriously and closely monitor the online environment,” the spokesman said. “Fidelity has a range of safeguards and multiple layers of security in place to protect customer accounts and information, our sites, and systems. For security reasons, some of those protections are visible and some are not.”

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