Pension cyberattacks, Covid's effect on retirement plans and an ethical debate - here's our weekly heads-up of articles in the weekend newspapers that may have caught your clients' attention...
Your personal data for sale as pension fraudsters strike Pension firms have been a regular target for fraudsters and hackers over the 12 months up to April 2021, as the companies' defences were breached a total of 68 times over the course of the year, reports The Telegraph. Cyber-criminals are targeting the firms for the rich source of consumer data in order to either use it themselves or to sell it on to other criminals. "You can go on to the dark web and see a list of prices for these kinds of data," says Aon's Paul McGlone. "The first generation of hackers would steal your data...
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