Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

After Insurance, Fast-Food Chain's Breach Costs Are Nearly $34 Million Fast-food giant Wendy's has reached a $50 million settlement agreement with financial institutions that sued after attackers planted RAM-scraping malware on point-of-sale systems in 1,025 of its restaurants in 2015 and 2016, stealing massive quantities of payment card data.

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Data Matters

JULY 30, 2018

In October 2017, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted an Insurance Data Security Model Law. On May 3, 2018, South Carolina became the first state to enact this Model Law, in the form of the South Carolina Insurance Data Security Act (H.B. See CT Gen Stat § 38a-999b (2015) ; 23 NYCRR 500.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 20, 2018

But Most Victims of the Health Insurer's Data Breach Will See No Cash A federal judge in California has given final approval to a $115 million settlement involving health insurer Anthem over its 2015 data breach.

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Information Management Resources

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The OCR has hit the health insurer with the fine as part of a settlement from its massive January 2015 breach.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB and Swiss insurance broker ASPIS that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges. According to CryptoIns analysts, the crypto assets insurance market is expected to reach $7 billion by 2023. Why do crypto exchanges’ users need insurance?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

In 2015, the company controlled 55% of the U.S. “VF will be seeking reimbursement of costs, expenses and losses stemming from the cyber incident by submitting claims to VF’s cybersecurity insurers. VF Corporation is an American global apparel and footwear company that owns 13 brands. million customers.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. In November 2009, Fitis wrote, “I am the perfect criminal.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

University of Utah officials explained that the university’s cyber insurance policy covered part of the ransom. “After careful consideration, the university decided to work with its cyber insurance provider to pay a fee to the ransomware attacker,” the university said today.” ” continues the statement.

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Archive-It

APRIL 17, 2024

Arts in a Changing America (ArtChangeUS) Denver Office of Storytelling (Community Webs) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Michael Naber Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Tulane University University of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library Oral History Program (Community Webs) We hope you can join us!

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2023

John Clifton Davies , a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. ” The team from CodesToYou. Official incorporation documents from the U.K.’s

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2023

More recently, BreachForums was the sales forum for data stolen from DC Health Link , a health insurance exchange based in Washington, D.C. The FBI responded by disabling the portal for some time, before ultimately forcing all InfraGard members to re-apply for membership. that suffered a data breach this month. 31, 2022.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The healthcare industry has poured vast resources into cybersecurity since 2015, when a surge of major breaches began. The compromised databases included names, addresses, dates of birth, insurance policy details, medical record numbers, account balances and dates of service — of both guarantors and patients.

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IT Governance

JULY 6, 2020

This equates to 25% of all UK businesses, compared to 13% in 2015. On the plus side, the average cost of breaches has fallen from £26,000 per incident in 2015 to £6,000 in 2019 – although that’s offset by the increase in the overall number of incidents. Beaming’s Five Years in Cyber Security found that 1.5

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eDiscovery Law

JULY 12, 2021

Key Insight: Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel sought missing documents and communications from, and the correction of metadata “issues” from Defendant and its parent company (via third party subpoena), and sought an award of attorney’s fees and costs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2020

“As per our researchers, this data leak includes the company’s cyber insurance documents, various contract calculations worksheets, NASA give review rules, and much more.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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CGI

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Insurer Hosted Pricing – getting (and staying) ahead of the curve. Thu, 10/01/2015 - 01:51. The pace of business and the pressure of market change are substantial challenges for insurers. For hard-pressed intermediated insurers, Insurer Hosted Pricing (IHP) could be the answer. p.butler@cgi.com. Add new comment.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

Xchanging is a business process and technology services provider and integrator, which provides technology-enabled business services to the commercial insurance industry. Xchanging is a business process and technology services provider and integrator, which provides technology-enabled business services to the commercial insurance industry.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

man who absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts of fraud in 2015. John Bernard (left) in a recent Zoom call, and a photo of John Clifton Davies from 2015. In 2015, Mr. Davies was convicted of stealing more than GBP 750,000 from struggling companies looking to restructure their debt.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2019

Zurich American Insurance Company is refusing to refund its client because consider the attack as “an act of war” that is not covered by its policy. The overall damages that insurance firms would probably have to cover reach over $80bn. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Leaked data includes 14 folders and 53,555 files divided into the following categories: Passport scans Flight bookings Hotel bookings Email communications between Airlink International Group employees and customers Insurance policy for international travel. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 17, 2019

The settlement resolves a multistate litigation arising out of a May 2015 data breach in which hackers infiltrated WebChart, a web application run by MIE, and stole the electronic Protected Health Information (“ePHI”) of over 3.9 MIE”) and its wholly owned subsidiary NoMoreClipboard, LLC. million individuals. million individuals.

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Information Governance Perspectives

APRIL 5, 2023

John Danenberger, CPCU, is Corporate Counsel at State Farm Insurance and specializes in addressing emerging issues around telematics. In 2015, he successfully transitioned from a military career as a trial attorney for the JAG Corps to working in telematics in corporate America for State Farm Insurance.

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Data Matters

MARCH 12, 2019

Of particular note, the Safeguards Rule NPRM proposes to align the FTC’s requirements with those of the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), as found in its cybersecurity regulations, and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”), as found in its insurance data security model law.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

The good news is that La Porte County has a cyber insurance that will cover part of the costs sustained to restore the activity after the attack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Government computer systems at La Porte County, Indiana, were shut down after a cyber attack hit them on July 6.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

A reader who was recently the victim of unemployment insurance fraud said he was told he should create an account at the Department of Homeland Security ‘s myE-Verify website , and place a lock on his Social Security number (SSN) to minimize the chances that ID thieves might abuse his identity for employment fraud in the future.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Incident details: Successful phishing attack, breaching records on a server that reached end of life in 2015, though the information itself was “of low-sensitivity and semi-public”. Breached organisation: BHI Energy, providing staffing solutions to the nuclear, fossil, wind, hydro and government energy markets. This includes employee data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2020

Maze Ransomware ransomware operators recently disclose other attacks against different organizations, including IT services giant Cognizant , and cyber insurer Chubb. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads a post published by Cyble.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 18, 2022

It is important to note that financial information is often collected, used or disclosed with identification information such as an individual’s social insurance number (“SIN”), thereby increasing its sensitivity. The sensitivity of personal information plays a number of key roles under PIPEDA. Reputational Harm.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2020

The sad aspect of the story is that the airport authority decided to pay the ransom with the economical coverage of the insurance carrier. “The authority’s insurance carrier authorized payment of the ransom, which airport CEO Philip Calderone only said was “under six figures.”” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2020

The payment will me made using the city’s insurance fund in an effort to preserve information of city workers and customers and quickly resume operations. The payment will me made using the city’s insurance fund in an effort to preserve information of city workers and customers and quickly resume operations. “It Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole “hundreds of thousands of documents,” including tens of thousands files related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2020

Our investigations also show that the suspect had intended to use the data to create marketing leads to offer insurance and credit-related services.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the report. said Experian Africa CEO Ferdie Pieterse. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

The attacks targeted a major utility provider, a university, and a government agency in the United States, a health agency in Canada, a health insurance provider, an energy company in Australia, and a European medical publishing company to deliver various malware families. billion in global losses. “Over the past 90 days (Jan.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Researchers at cybernews.com recently uncovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket that contains more than 36,000 documents, including scans of passports, credit cards, and health insurance cards. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. What data is in the bucket?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

the individual paying for a patient’s bill), including name, date of birth, address, insurance policy details, medical record number, invoice number, account balance, date of service and, in some cases, social security number. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Luke’s Physician Network.

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