Data security

Most advisors don’t have required safeguards in place, one expert says.

State examiners are finding more shortcomings. At the same time, advisors face bulked-up regulators probing more aspects of their practices.

Equifax's data breach may be the most serious, given that it covered 143 million consumers and involved reams of confidential information, but it wasn't the largest. Following are the biggest to date.

In the wake of cyberattacks at Equifax and EDGAR, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton makes an unusually lengthy statement appealing for RIAs to bolster security.

Risk alert: The agency expects advisors to follow these steps.

A recent OCIE report shows that advisors are missing the mark on protecting their businesses against cyber threats.

The bank’s attorney who mistakenly released reams of sensitive data about wealthy clients asked a judge to order the records returned and not to be spread any further.

Regulators are contacting the bank after financial details of some 50,000 clients were inadvertently sent to an outside party, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Are the measures you're taking enough? Compliance expert Alan J. Foxman explains.

Some advisers are actually embracing changes by making the rules work for them.