In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about a common and easily fixable cybersecurity risk in retirement plans: participants who have not set up user IDs and passwords for their accounts. This oversight is the most frequent cause of cyber breaches, not the fault of plan sponsors or record keepers. Eric shares an anecdote about an employee discovering unauthorized 401(k) loan deductions, highlighting the importance of security measures like user IDs, passwords, and two-factor authentication. He urges plan sponsors and advisors to communicate the necessity of these security steps to participants to prevent cyber breaches.

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