Couple loses $180,000 from retirement savings after accounts hacked

A Chicago area couple logged into their retirement account only to find out it had been hacked, and a large chunk of their retirement savings was gone, and the response from the online brokerage firm is only adding insult to injury.

“Look at these trades at 3:32. That’s after the market closed. I usually don’t place trades after the market has closed,” Erez Hartal said.

Tali and Erez Hartal keep their retirement online trading accounts at Tastytrade, a firm known for being user friendly and having good technical analysis. But while on a vacation in August, the couple started getting emails about activity on their accounts…

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