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Another breach of a huge financial institution has leaked the personal information of thousands of customers to the public. reported that an unidentified hacker obtained 77,009 customers’ personal data from the asset management firm Fidelity Investments. posted yesterday revealed that the unidentified third party obtained the information in mid-August using two phony customer accounts. It’s not yet known how these accounts were used to access customer data. Fidelity said in a letter to its customers that it discovered the breach on August 19. The letter also said that the unidentified party did not access customers’ Fidelity accounts but after Fidelity…