Cybersecurity: Asia gets ahead of the game

Financial institutions in the region are taking pre-emptive steps to fend off hackers after banks in Taiwan and Bangladesh were hit. Investors need to be aware of the risks.

Earlier this year, hackers seized personal information including social security numbers, emails and phone numbers for 143 million Americans and another 400,000 people in the UK from Equifax, a credit-scoring agency, erasing billion of dollars from its market value and sparking a slew of senior management departures and a federal investigation.

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