Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, has agreed to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for $10 million over allegations that it failed to timely notify the SEC of the cybersecurity incident it experienced in 2021 involving its virtual private network.

The SEC alleged that ICE should

In an era of cyberwarfare, financial institutions can find themselves in the crossfire. The U.S. government indicted seven Iranian hackers last week, charging the individuals for their roles in a 2011 series of cyber-attacks targeting at least 46 major banking institutions. The attacks, which Attorney General Loretta Lynch called “relentless,” “systematic” and “widespread,” were carried