BlackRock headquarters in New York. (Photo: AP)
A data leak revealed last week at BlackRock Inc. exposed names, email addresses and other information of about 20,000 advisors who are clients of the asset manager, including 12,000 at LPL Financial, the largest U.S. independent broker-dealer.
“BlackRock inadvertently posted a small number of sales-related documents, which were up for a short period of time, and promptly removed,” the company said Monday in an emailed statement. “The information related to a very limited number of wealth management platforms impacting approximately 20,000 independent advisors in the U.S.”
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