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Insurer: Breach Undetected for Nine Years

Data Breach Today

Dominion National Says Recently Discovered Incident Dates Back to 2010 A dental and vision insurer's revelation that it recently discovered a 9-year-old data security incident offers an extreme example of the difficulty some organizations have in detecting data breaches.

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Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Sector – A New Patchwork Quilt in the US?

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Fitis’s real-life identity was exposed in 2010 after two of the biggest sponsors of pharmaceutical spam went to war with each other, and large volumes of internal documents, emails and chat records seized from both spam empires were leaked to this author. My fingerprints change beyond recognition every few days. Image: Archive.org.

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Hospitality Chain McMenamins discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

According to the company, threat actors have stolen data of individuals employed between July 1, 2010, and December 12, 2021.

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Connecticut Insurance Department Issues Five-Day Breach Reporting Requirement

Hunton Privacy

On August 18, 2010, the Connecticut Insurance Department (the “Department”) issued Bulletin IC-25 , which requires entities subject to its jurisdiction to notify the Department in writing of any “information security incident” within five calendar days after an incident is identified.

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Maryland Department of Labor discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

The security breach was discovered earlier this year, hackers also accessed data stored in the Literacy Works Information System and a legacy unemployment insurance service database. ” Threat actors accessed to files stored in the Literacy Works Information System that are dated back 2009, 2010, and 2014. .

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US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . The retailer is offering MyIDCare identity theft protection services through ID Experts, it includes 12 months of credit and CyberScan monitoring, a $1,000,000 insurance reimbursement policy, and fully managed id theft recovery services.