Did Online Broker Just2Trade.com Get Hacked?
posted on: 2010-01-25 07:00:26 by Soo-Young
tags: broker news

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For the past few days I've been receiving notifications from Bullishness.com's commission checking tool that Just2Trade's website hasn't been working. I assumed that they were upgrading their system over the weekend (the market is closed over the weekend after all) and that everything would come back online today, but yet again, in my inbox, I received a notification about how Just2Trade's website was down. This is happening both on my personal computer at home and my web server, which is based remotely. Very strange!

I did some more digging, and found that their website was indeed down. If you go to Just2Trade.com, you'll see a white screen, and the source code reveals nothing going on behind the scenes (the source file is completely blank). For an online stock broker to be down on an open trading day is definitely alarming.


I did more sleuthing and found something on Twitter that would also suggest that Just2Trade got hacked. A Twitter post from 5 days ago reads: "seems kind of odd to me that Just2Trade twitter page is all in Russian, trying to get a account with them but they seem to be slow so far." Twitter posts are usually not the most credible source of information, but because this is coming at around the same time as Just2Trade's down time seems to indicate something fishy is going on.

This is all speculation, but Just2Trade's website is down on a trading day, which is never supposed to happen. If you have an account with Just2Trade and have any other information about this, please email me at .