People search Fidelity Investments data breach timeline because the brand sits on billions of accounts, credentials, and cloud workloads. BreachHistory indexes 6 Fidelity Investments-linked incidents, with headline counts up to 196K+ in catalog rows. This page maps every attested event through 2026 with internal links to canonical records.
Why Fidelity Investments breach history matters
Fidelity Investments operates in Finance (United States). Across indexed rows, recurring themes include mixed intrusion and disclosure events. Understanding the chronological pattern helps security teams, customers, and regulators separate confirmed disclosures from forum marketing.
Full timeline through 2026
2017 — — Fidelity Investments: Fidelity Investments suffered an inadvertent…
Cataloged incident. Fidelity Investments suffered an inadvertent disclosure on 11/24/17 that affected 348 records, including social security numbers. Exposed categories include Personal information. BreachHistory cites approximately 348 affected records in this row. See the fidelity-investments2017 and canonical BreachHistory entry.
2014 — — Fidelity Investments: name, ssn, brokerage account number Location of…
Cataloged incident. name, ssn, brokerage account number Location of breached information: email Business associate present: No Exposed categories include Personal information. BreachHistory cites approximately 1 affected records in this row. See the fidelity-investments2014 and canonical BreachHistory entry.
2013 — — Fidelity Investments: Current and former Oracle employees may have had…
Cataloged incident. Current and former Oracle employees may have had their 401(k) information viewed by a plan administrator at the firm of another Fidelity client. Names, Social Security numbers, compensation, and other 401(k) savings and investmant plan information was briefly viewed by accident. The issue was discovered on July 10, 2013. Exposed categories include Personal information. No attested victim count is published for this row yet. See the fidelity-investments2013 and canonical BreachHistory entry.
2007 — — Fidelity Investments: A Fidelity laptop used by a former Fidelity…
Cataloged incident. A Fidelity laptop used by a former Fidelity employee was discarded and recovered by a non-affiliated person. The employee had taken the laptop home after believing it had been decommissioned from business use by Fidelity. Participants and beneficiaries of participants in the Dairy Farmers of America Defined Benefit plan had their names and Social Security numbers exposed. At least 69 New York residents were affected by the breach, but the total number of affected individuals nationwide was not r Exposed categories include Personal information. BreachHistory cites approximately 69 affected records in this row. See the fidelity-investments2007 and canonical BreachHistory entry.
2006 — — Fidelity Investments: A laptop containing names, addresses, birth dates,…
Cataloged incident. A laptop containing names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers and other information of 196,000 Hewlett Packard, Compaq and DEC retirement account customers was stolen. Fidelity contacted the customers and paid for one year of credit monitoring services. Fidelity also pledged to pay for unauthorized transactions in pensions or retirement accounts that occurred due to the theft. Exposed categories include Personal information. BreachHistory cites approximately 196K+ affected records in this row. See the fidelity-investments2006 and canonical BreachHistory entry.
2005 — — 28k records
Cataloged incident. CardSystems. 28k records. Exposed categories include Names, emails, addresses, and other PII. BreachHistory cites approximately 283 affected records in this row. See the fidelity-investments2005 and canonical BreachHistory entry.
Patterns and analysis
- Mixed intrusion and disclosure events — appears across multiple Fidelity Investments catalog entries; prioritize controls that address this class of failure.
- Record-count hygiene — BreachHistory indexes actor-cited figures separately from company-confirmed totals; read each row's technicalWriteup before treating counts as fact.
- 2026 monitoring — New disclosures roll into this timeline as they are verified or labeled unverified per catalog policy.
What to do if you may be affected
- Step 1: Enable phishing-resistant MFA on every account tied to this brand.
- Step 2: Use unique passwords and a password manager—breach rows often involve credential reuse.
- Step 3: Monitor official company breach notices and regulator filings, not dark-web downloads.
- Step 4: Bookmark the Fidelity Investments company page for new 2026+ disclosures.
Canonical BreachHistory hub
Explore every indexed row: breachhistory.com/fidelity-investments · Latest: fidelity-investments2017.
Sources: BreachHistory catalog (6 rows for Fidelity Investments), company and regulator disclosures cited in individual breach records.