Now if your financial institution suffers a security breach they’ll have to let you know within 30 days.The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted changes to Regulation S-P this week, which deals with the treatment of consumer’s personal information, Ars Technica reports.Based on the new amendments, financial institutions will now have to notify any individual whose personal information is compromised due to a breach of their systems “as soon as practicable, but not later than 30 days after becoming aware that an incident involving unauthorized access to or use of customer information has occurred or is reasonably likely to have occurred.”The update impacts broker-dealers (including funding portals), investment companies, registered investment advisers, and transfer agents.“Over the last 24 years, the nature, scale, and impact of data breaches has transformed substantially,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler said in a press release announcing the change. “These amendments to Regulation S-P will make critical updates to a rule first adopted in 2000 and help protect the privacy of customers’ financial data. The basic idea for covered firms is if you’ve got a breach, then you’ve got to notify. That’s good for investors.”
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When finanicial institution’s do notify customers under the new rules they’ll also need to include details about what happened, what data was compromised, and provide information about how the impacted individuals can protect themselves.The amendments will go into effect 60 days after they’re published in the Federal Register. That said, it still might be a bit before we see companies start to comply. Larger entities have 18 months after the amendments are published in the Federal Register to comply with the amendments.
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