Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

Since Carnival was licensed by the Department to sell insurance in NY State, it was treated as a covered entity under the Cybersecurity Regulation. In addition to the monetary penalty of $5 million, NYDFS also accepted Carnival’s surrender of its insurance producer license; thus, Carnival has ceased selling insurance in New York.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. Who had access to the data?

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Health insurance information : an individual’s health insurance policy number or subscriber number in combination with access code or other medical information that permits misuse of an individual’s health insurance benefits.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

On December 13, 2023, VF Corp detected unauthorized access to a portion of its infrastructure. VF Corp also added that it has found no evidence that customer passwords were stolen. “VF will be seeking reimbursement of costs, expenses and losses stemming from the cyber incident by submitting claims to VF’s cybersecurity insurers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data. “Due to an attack on the systems, unauthorized persons gained access to personal data. TFS offers various financial products, including auto loans, leases, and insurance solutions.

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Financial Services Data breaches Ransomware Insurance 115

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Researchers at ISE have identified security flaws affecting four popular password managers on the Windows 10 platform, which could allow malware to access the master password and/or the individual passwords stored in them, even when the password managers are locked. million users – are all potentially affected.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This blog covers access controls. Deficient access controls result in security breaches. Any organisation whose employees connect to the Internet needs some level of access control in place. Any organisation whose employees connect to the Internet needs some level of access control in place. Secure your access controls.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

TFS offers various financial products, including auto loans, leases, and insurance solutions. The services provided by Toyota Financial Services may vary by region, and customers can typically access these services through Toyota dealerships or online platforms.

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IT Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

This is a security mechanism that requires people to enter a second piece of information in addition to a password in order to log on. Weak passwords. For all the advancements that organisations have made to secure their systems, password practices remain a huge problem. Passwords are usually compromised in one of two ways.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

The company added that the unauthorized accessed were the result of credential stuffing attacks and that its systems were not breached. “On December 20, 2022, we confirmed that unauthorized parties were able to access your PayPal customer account using your login credentials.

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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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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

Cyber Insurer Provides Help. As Spectra Logic had the foresight to take out cyber insurance , Chubb representatives were professional and helpful, according to Mendoza. Forensic analysis of the breach came to a quick conclusion – a phishing attempt had tricked a user with privileged access into clicking on a malicious link.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Holden said the internal discussions among the Venus group members indicate this gang has no problem gaining access to victim organizations. Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. “The Venus group has problems getting paid,” Holden said.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

credit or debit card number, or any financial account number in combination with any required security code, access code or password that would permit access to such financial account. 60-Day Notification Window.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

.” Constella Intelligence , a company that tracks exposed databases, finds that 774748@gmail.com was used in connection with just a handful of passwords, but most frequently the password “ featar24 “ Pivoting off of that password reveals a handful of email addresses, including akafitis@gmail.com. ru in 2008.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 7, 2019

. “I would recommend everyone reach out to their insurance provider,” said one dentist based in Denver. “No help from my insurance. “I was told by CTS that I would have to pay the ransom to get my corrupted files back.” Still not working, great loss of income, patients are mad, staff even worse.”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. But in certain cases the cloud is not readily accessible. The administrator can set password rules, put certain types of files on white lists or black lists, remotely reset devices; they can even disable devices lost in the field.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 9, 2019

The insurer has informed customers a third party used a list of user IDs and passwords to attempt access into online accounts.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

According to the settlement agreement, the threat actor obtained access to the EyeMed email account on approximately June 24, 2020 and not only obtained access to six years’ worth of information, but also began sending 2,000 phishing emails on July 1. EyeMed blocked the threat actor’s access on July 1.

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Passwords Financial Services Authentication Insurance 98

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Threat actors used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to impersonate victims and obtain access to files, healthcare portals, payment information, and websites. million payments. ” reads the alert. In one case, the victim reported having lost approximately $1.5

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

” CMG quickly took its systems offline as a precautionary measure and took additional steps to prevent further unauthorized access.” CMG discovered the incident on the same day, when CMG observed that certain files were encrypted and inaccessible.” ” continues the notification. ” concludes the letter.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

The attack took place on October 15, 2021, when threat actors breached the hospital’s network and accessed patient data. According to the investigation, the attackers compromised a third-party medical provider who was permitted access to the system to provide their services. ” continues the letter.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It took almost three weeks for Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola in the US, to spot the intrusion, during which time the attackers had widespread access to its internal systems. What went wrong? Pepsi said that it “took prompt action to contain the incident and secure [its] systems”.

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Data breaches Insurance Manufacturing Access 105

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to the attackers, this was a configuration issue on an access point T-Mobile used for testing. The configuration issue made this access point publicly available on the Internet. It is shocking that a server with that amount on sensitive PII data was accessible and was stored in an unencrypted state.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

“The forensic investigation did reveal that certain systems containing sensitive information were subject to unauthorized access, and that a certain amount of data was taken from the Wabtec environment on June 26, 2022. The information was later posted to the threat actor’s leak site.

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Ransomware Insurance Data breaches Manufacturing 90

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

While investigating the incident, it discovered that confidential consumer information had been accessed by an unauthorised third party. On 2 September, it confirmed that an unauthorised party had accessed or removed some of its files, some of which contained confidential patient information.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The Division of Consumer Affairs alleged that the fertility clinic violated the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act and the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules by removing protected health information (“PHI”) safeguards. Neafsey said in a statement regarding the breach.

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Data breaches Privacy Insurance Information Security 103

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Check your cyber insurance policy. Ensure you have access to appropriate threat intelligence. Make sure that your back-up strategy and policies also includes key access data such as decryption keys and access tokens – as well as the underlying data – so you can recover your data quickly. Ensure good password hygiene.

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Passwords Phishing Risk Access 98

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

ASP, PHP, JSP), that attackers implant on web servers to gain remote access and code execution. According to the CISA’s report , Iranian hackers from an unnamed APT group are employing several known web shells, in attacks on IT, government, healthcare, financial, and insurance organizations across the United States.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2023

Suzuki or otherwise, buying a new vehicle is an intense experience with complicated credit, insurance, documentation, and contracts. Files that should be secure and kept private were left publicly accessible. Database credentials allow attackers to easily access the contents of the database, which likely contain user information.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The compromised data included contact details, national insurance numbers and bank account details, as well as special category data, including ethnic origin, religion, details of any disabilities, sexual orientation and health information.

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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. As of June 5, the Ariix Italia data bucket has been closed and is no longer accessible. Who had access?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

A file is found copied to a location accessible via web request (typically running_config.xml): Perform a Private Data Reset of the device. Destruction of forensic artifacts will prevent incident response investigations and criminal investigations, and could affect cybersecurity insurance processes.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The settlement stemmed from the theft of two laptops stolen from Horizon headquarters in November 2013, when personnel from outside vendors performing renovations and moving services at Horizon’s Newark headquarters had unsupervised access to the area where company laptops were stored. Under the terms of the settlement, in addition to the $1.1

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The stolen information allegedly included names and identifying information, hashed passwords, security questions and answers, family information, Social Security numbers, lab results, health insurance information, doctor’s names, and medical conditions, among other things.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mexico confirms hack of military records (unknown) Randolph-area school district disables its own website following transphobic hack (unknown) Australia’s Telstra hit by data breach, two weeks after attack on Optus (unknown) Patient details compromised in cyber attack on health provider Pinnacle (unknown) CHI Health faces ‘IT security incident’ impacting (..)

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