Data breaches

The bank says plaintiffs cannot connect instances of identity theft or fraud to incidents at the bank, giving the case no standing.

The exposed information includes customer names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and company names.

The regulator found that the financial services company failed to take precautions in disposing of hardware that contained sensitive customer information.

Current and former clients claim personal information, including Social Security and passport numbers, have been exposed due to negligence.

A stroll down the corridors at professional gatherings is always a good idea. Here are ways to have the most fruitful conversations.

Take snafus from other financial institutions as fire drills to stress test your third-party providers.

At this stage it's not an actual data breach, but it could become one.

The Massachusetts senator asked Richard Fairbank in a letter why the bank didn’t detect the breach for nearly four months and how it plans to prevent future cyber intrusions.

As wealth managers collect more client information, it is up to advisors to understand the value of data to the business and how it needs to be handled.

The reforms could serve as a checklist for firms looking to enhance their own cybersecurity posture in light of the regulator’s increased scrutiny.

The news of the data breach cast a shadow over relatively strong first-quarter earnings for the Atlanta bank.

To protect their practice, advisors should know the answers to several critical questions about how vendors use and safeguard their data.

Client data should be walled off behind sufficient protections.

Advisors worried about securing client data should learn how banks are developing a protected space for internet activity.

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.

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

Why advisers need to pay close attention to technology vendor contracts.

FINRA fines Lincoln Financial Securities for foreign hack attack.