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Under the SEC jurisdiction broker-dealers, investment advisers and other financial institutions are required to protect their customers’ nonpublic personal information.  In this particular case one of the former executives took sensitive client data and downloaded it to a portable thumb drive that was then provided to another firm.  This broker dealer also had at least four breaches that involved customer data, stolen laptops and corporate email using stolen credentials.

These fines could have been avoided, and this brokerage dealer might have still been in business, if they had followed the IT compliance regulations. 

Read more on this case:

http://www.informationweek.com/security/attacks/exclusive-anatomy-of-a-brokerage-it-melt/240008569?pgno=1

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