Cyber attacks

It's a bigger challenge to keep pace with a fast changing industry, CEO Robert Cook said.

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.

The firm says its external backup system failed at the same time its main internet connection was cut, raising concerns.

The OCIE is suggesting best practices for firms to protect themselves.

It’s important for all advice firms to have an information security strategy in place that safeguards company and client data wherever it resides.

High-value targets include client names and account numbers. Protecting the information can also protect an advisory practice from regulatory penalties.

FINRA fines Lincoln Financial Securities for foreign hack attack.

It's a planner's worst nightmare. Here's what to do when client data is compromised by a cyberattack.

The company’s survival may depend on a continuing security awareness training program.

The company’s survival may depend on a continuing security awareness training program.

Fidelity Investments is telling investors and advisors that clients' data appears not to have been captured by the hackers who infiltrated the systems of JPMorgan Chase earlier this year. And while clients aren't yet worried, advisors say, such threats are unlikely to go away.