Short answer: Our record tracks regulatory actions and outages for banks and brokers rather than hacks; no customer-funds hack is recorded for Vanguard.
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Short answer: Our record tracks regulatory actions and outages for banks and brokers rather than hacks; no customer-funds hack is recorded for Vanguard.
No customer-funds hack in our sourced record for Vanguard. Protection: SIPC member. Regulatory actions in the last 5 years on record: 2.
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This page answers “Is Vanguard 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: 7.0/10. Base 10, −1 FINRA 2026-09-23, −2 SEC 2025-01-17. Note: Checked 2026-10-11: SEC, FINRA, CFPB. Added FINRA Sept 2026 ($950K; reported by trade press, FINRA AWC). SEC 2025 Fair Fund distribution ongoing (not a new action).
Overall VaultRubric score across all brokerage & ira options we track: 75.0% (data coverage 100%). How incidents are scored · hack cap.
Checked 2026-10-11: SEC, FINRA, CFPB. Added FINRA Sept 2026 ($950K; reported by trade press, FINRA AWC). SEC 2025 Fair Fund distribution ongoing (not a new action).
Our record tracks regulatory actions and outages for banks and brokers rather than hacks; no customer-funds hack is recorded for Vanguard.
No customer-funds hack in our sourced record for Vanguard. Protection: SIPC member. Regulatory actions in the last 5 years on record: 2. No platform is risk-free; see the full record on this page.
No customer-funds hack in our sourced record for Vanguard. Protection: SIPC member.
Vanguard scores 75.0% across all brokerage & ira options we track, with 100% data coverage. See /methodology.