Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Lawsuit Claims Insurer Owes Retailer for Coverage of Card Replacement Costs Target has filed a lawsuit against its long-time insurer, ACE American Insurance Co.,

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

Magellan Health, a for-profit managed health care and insurance firm, was the victim of a ransomware attack. Magellan Health is a for-profit managed health care and insurance firm that ranks 417 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest US corporations by total revenue.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 10, 2019

Million Settlement Would Be Largest Ever for a Data Breach, Plaintiffs Say Yahoo is hoping a revamped proposed breach-related settlement will pass muster with a federal judge who rejected the first one for myriad reasons, including high attorney fees and a lack of transparency.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The funds would cover some of the money Target paid to reimburse financial institutions for credit card replacement after the 2013 breach

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IT Governance

MARCH 2, 2020

The 632,595,960 breached records accounts for about a third of January’s total, and is considerably lower than the figures for this time last year. Ordinance Survey discovers breach of employee data (1,000). Altice USA employees’ data stolen in phishing attack (12,000).

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 26, 2019

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

Blue Cross of Idaho announced to have suffered a data breach, hackers accessed to the personal information of about 5,600 customers. We have not identified any unauthorized use of personal data and will keep close watch for illegitimate activity,”.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 24, 2019

Dominion National first spotted something awry in April of 2019

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

The US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson has disclosed a data breach that affected its customers. The US-based children’s clothing maker and online retailer Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach, attackers planted an e-skimmer on its e-commerce platform.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The way in which you respond to a data breach has a significant impact on how severe its consequences are. The number of data breaches that were tracked in the U.S. The way in which you respond to a data breach has a significant impact on how severe its consequences are.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Hospital network Atrium Health suffered a data breach, hacked accessed patients’ personal information after compromised the technology solutions provider AccuDoc. The archive did not contain financial data or clinical/medical information. The data breach impacted roughly 2.65

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. . The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2019

Oregon Department of Human Services announced it was a victim of a data breach in January, roughly 645,000 potentially impacted. “The Oregon Department of Human Services is notifying about 645,000 clients whose personal information is now at risk from a January data breach.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

Recovery agency for patient collections American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) suffered a data breach that could impact many of its customers. The security breach has impacted roughly 12 million of Quest Diagnostics ‘ patients and roughly 7.7

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The June data breach of Canadian financial institution Desjardins was wider in scope than initially reported and compromised the data of all 4.2 The breach, initially detected in December 2018 and announced in July 2019, was originally estimated to have affected 2.7

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A Girl Scouts of America branch in California suffered a security breach, hackers accessed data of 2,800 girls and their families. Hackers breached the Orange County, Calif. 1, Girl Scouts of Orange County notified every member whose data has been compromised.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. based First American is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries. Data Breaches Ben Shoval First American Financial Corp

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Case Now Heads Back to Lower Court for Potential Trial The Supreme Court has declined to review the data breach case involving CareFirst, and so now the class action lawsuit against the health insurer is headed back to a Washington federal trial court.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

vpnMentor ’s research team discovered a hack affecting 80 million US households, and the incident is still actively leaking data. This isn’t the first time a huge database has been breached. This reveals open holes in web systems, which they then examine for weaknesses and data leaks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2018

France’s data protection agency had fined the ride-sharing company Uber with 400,000 euros ($455,000) over a 2016 data breach. The data breach suffered by Uber in 2016 exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Two thirds of UK organisations are uninsured against the financial impact of a data breach, a survey has revealed. Of the 1,800 respondents surveyed, 56% were most concerned about lost customer confidence and 52% were more fearful of the reputational damage inflicted by a breach.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Lab test provider LifeLabs has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information for up to 15 million Canadians. The exposed data dates back from 2016 and earlier, most of the information belongs to customers from B.C. ” reads the data breach notice.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In a month where security experts across Europe were boosting awareness of cyber security , organisations had mixed results in their own data protection practices. It was also a particularly bad month for the UK, with 9 confirmed breaches. Data breaches.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 12, 2018

Good article about how difficult it is to insure an organization against Internet attacks, and how expensive the insurance is. But even with 20 years' worth of experience and claims data in cyberinsurance, underwriters still struggle with how to model and quantify a unique type of risk.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 10, 2018

As reported on the Insurance Recovery Blog , Hunton Andrews Kurth insurance practice head Walter Andrews recently commented to the Global Data Review regarding the infirmities underlying an Orlando, Florida federal district court’s ruling that an insurer does not have to defend its insured for damage caused by a third-party data breach. To me, it’s clear that there were two reasonable interpretations of the insurance policy here.”.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm disclosed a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. The insurance firm is notifying the impacted customers, but it did not disclose the number of affected users.

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Dark Reading

JULY 9, 2018

Lawsuit filed by Lexington Insurance and Beazley Insurance is in response to a Trustwave legal filing that called their claims meritless

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Every day almost 7 million data records are compromised , with no organisation or sector immune. Organisations are facing a war on data breaches, so it’s imperative that ‘know your enemy’ becomes part of their battle tactics. Are you prepared for a data breach?

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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2018

Most people generally understand what happens after a data breach: the crooks use or sell the information to make a quick profit, and organisations must spend money recovering from the incident and paying legal fees and penalties. There is also the cost of the breach response.

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IT Governance

JULY 23, 2019

Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700 million (about £561 million) as part of a settlement with US regulators following its mammoth data breach in 2017. How did the breach occur? However, a large part of that loss was offset by the organisation’s cyber insurance policy.

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Record Nations

MAY 8, 2018

Even the tiniest security gap can lead to a data breach. million settlement, Nationwide Insurance’s breach serves as just one example of the growing number of data breaches each year—making it all the more important you have protections in place. The post The Data Breach Case Study & Protection Guide appeared first on Record Nations. Data Breach/ID TheftAfter a $5.5

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 20, 2020

To help mitigate the risk of financial losses, more companies are turning to cyber insurance. Related: Bots attack business logic Cyber insurance, like other forms of business insurance, is a way for companies to transfer some of numerous potential liability hits associated specifically with IT infrastructure and IT activities. In other words, you are just about as likely to suffer from a security or data breach as you are to experience a hurricane or earthquake.

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IT Governance

MAY 1, 2019

We would’ve been talking about an extraordinarily low number of breached records this month if it hadn’t been for a string of incidents in India, another Facebook gaffe and a massive blunder in China, in which a series of companies exposed almost 600 million citizens’ CVs. Still, April 2019 saw a not completely disastrous 1,334,488,724 breached records. Criminal accesses personal data of faculty staff and students at Georgia Tech (1.3 Data breaches.

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IT Governance

APRIL 23, 2019

The Supreme Court has given Morrisons permission to appeal a ruling that found the supermarket liable for a data breach caused by a malicious insider. Morrisons has lost two cases related to its March 2014 data breach , in which Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor at the supermarket’s Bradford office, leaked the payroll data of 99,998 employees. Skelton was arrested soon after leaking the data and in July 2015 was sentenced to eight years in prison.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

After a rampant start to the year for data breaches and cyber attacks, it’s about time we went one month without at least one massive security incident. Security breach costs Ripple cryptocurrency holders 23 million XRP (12). KY, school breached (7,000). Data breaches.

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Threatpost

MAY 9, 2019

Two have been indicted in the 2015 massive data breach of health insurer Anthem, which compromised the data of at least 78 million customers. Breach Government Hacks Privacy 2015 anthem breach Anthem breach china hacking group data breach hacking group

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Information Management Resources

MARCH 26, 2019

Bridger Insurance says the incident, reported in Sept. 2018, involved some access of insurance application data. Data security Data management Data breaches Data governance Data storage

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IT Governance

MARCH 28, 2019

There’s a new compiler at the helm of our monthly list of data breaches, following the departure of IT Governance stalwart Lewis Morgan, who leaves me with some mighty big shoes to fill. All-in-one widget ShareThis discloses data theft (617 million). Data breaches.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 30, 2019

It’s summer, and life’s a breach. A data breach, that is. It’s your service provider’s breach, but it involves your (more likely, your customer’s) data. So put down the beach reading, for some breach reading.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The shortest month of the year is over in a flash, but not before a significant number of data breaches and cyber attacks could take place. I always suggest subscribing to our Daily Sentinel to receive daily updates on the latest data breaches and cyber attacks.

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