Data breaches

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.