Nearly Half of New Jersey Accounts Hacked in 2017
New Jersey’s population is currently just under nine million. Over four million New Jersey accounts were affected by data and security breaches in 2017. How can you protect yourself? There are some simple steps a…
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Cyber Security for Investment Advisors
Even if you are a small plan advisor, you have to realize that cyber attackers are always attempting to breach and steal your data. It may not be within what you expected when you started…
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Microsoft Emails Hacked in Breach
Some of Microsoft’s email services, which include Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail, were breached by hackers with users’ email addresses, folder names, email subject lines, and names of email addresses users communicated with between January and…
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The Fiduciary Duty of Protecting Against Cyber Attacks
Under ERISA, fiduciaries are subject to the prudent expert standard of care, in which they have to act with diligence, care, and skill under the circumstances as professionals their field would. They also owe a…
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Protections Against Cyber Attacks & Data Breaches
Cyber attacks seem to happen every week these days. As those bigger companies beef up their cybersecurity to prevent hacks, cyber attackers are increasingly likely to go after the less protected companies which ends up…
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What is a Data Breach?
Retirement plans are becoming more and more vulnerable to cyber attacks as the number of attacks and methods of breach increase. But what exactly is a data breach and what are cyber attackers after? Data…
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Data Breach Victims Can Sue Without Proof of Harm from Breach
The U.S. Supreme Court has found that Zappos, an Amazon subsidiary, can be sued by customers who were victims of a Zappos data breach in 2012 without the customer showing that the breach harmed them….
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Mass Emails Can Expose Personal Data
English government department of the Home Office has recently come under fire for accidentally exposing hundreds of email addresses after communicating with EU applicants hoping to settle in the UK via mass email. Over 200…
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Business Owner Data Breach Liability
Cyber attacks on businesses are almost becoming a matter of “when” and not “if.” If a cyber attacker is able to hack your business and steal sensitive and valuable data from your business, what kind of…
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