Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay a US$1mil (RM4.03mil) fine to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission civil charges that security lapses at the Wall Street bank enabled a former financial adviser to tap into its computers and take client data home, the regulator said.
The settlement resolves allegations related to Galen Marsh's unauthorised transfers from 2011 to 2014 of data from about 730,000 accounts to his home computer in New Jersey, some of which was hacked by third parties and offered for sale online.