No customer-funds hack in our sourced record for Interactive Brokers. Protection: SIPC member. Regulatory actions in the last 5 years on record: 3.
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No customer-funds hack in our sourced record for Interactive Brokers. Protection: SIPC member. Regulatory actions in the last 5 years on record: 3.
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This page answers “Is Interactive Brokers safe?” only from VaultRubric's sourced record (security incidents, regulatory actions, licensing and protections), as of 2026-10-12. It is not a guarantee: no platform is risk-free, and safety also depends on how you use it (2FA, phishing, backups).
Regulatory record: 6.0/10. Base 10, −1 CFTC 2023-09-29, −2 SEC 2023-09-22, −1 FINRA/Nasdaq PHLX 2025-09-30. Note: Checked 2026-10-11: SEC, FINRA, CFTC, Nasdaq. Added SEC and CFTC Sept 2023 actions (inside 5-year window); no 2026 actions found. PHLX 2025 amount per Nasdaq disciplinary PDF.
Overall VaultRubric score across all brokerage & ira options we track: 75.7% (data coverage 100%). How incidents are scored · hack cap.
Checked 2026-10-11: SEC, FINRA, CFTC, Nasdaq. Added SEC and CFTC Sept 2023 actions (inside 5-year window); no 2026 actions found. PHLX 2025 amount per Nasdaq disciplinary PDF.
No customer-funds hack in our sourced record for Interactive Brokers. Protection: SIPC member. Regulatory actions in the last 5 years on record: 3. No platform is risk-free; see the full record on this page.
Our record tracks regulatory actions and outages for banks and brokers rather than hacks; no customer-funds hack is recorded for Interactive Brokers.
No customer-funds hack in our sourced record for Interactive Brokers. Protection: SIPC member.
Interactive Brokers scores 75.7% across all brokerage & ira options we track, with 100% data coverage. See /methodology.