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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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Business Associate Breaches Affect Millions Many of the major health data breaches added to the federal tally so far this year involve business associates, continuing a trend in recent years.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Data Breach: WizCase team uncovered a massive data leak containing private information about Turkish Citizens through a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket. Document sent to the insurance company by the victim’s lawyer. How Did the Data Breach Happen?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Immigration law firm Fragomen has disclosed a data breach that exposed current and former Google employees’ personal information. These services are available through IDX, the data breach and recovery services expert.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2020

The South African branch of consumer credit reporting agency Experian disclosed a data breach that impacted 24 million customers. The South African branch of consumer credit reporting agency Experian disclosed this week a data breach that impacted 24 million customers.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Among the 2017 Incidents Was a Mailing Mishap Exposing HIV Information Federal regulators have slapped health insurer Aetna with a $1 million HIPAA settlement for three 2017 breaches - including a mailing incident that exposed HIV information - that occurred within six months

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

With the average cost of a data breach exceeding three million dollars, cyber insurance has become a necessity for SMBs. The post SMBs and Cyber Insurance – Third Certainty #27 appeared first on Adam Levin.

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IT Governance

APRIL 1, 2021

Don’t be fooled by the fact that we only recorded 20,995,371 breached records in March; it was one of the leakiest months we’ve ever seen, with 151 recorded incidents. By comparison, there was a seemingly Lilliputian 82 recorded breaches in January and 118 in February. Data breaches.

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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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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

AUGUST 22, 2018

Some terms of the recent $115 million settlement in the class action lawsuit against health insurer Anthem tied to a 2015 cyberattack appear underwhelming for the victims, says attorney James DeGraw, who explains why

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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. million, just ahead of health insurer Anthem's $115 million settlement

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2020

After mammoth amounts of personal data were leaked in May and June, we’ve seen a reversion to the mean this month. You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from July in this blog. Bitcoin scam leaks personal data of users from across the globe (248,926).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The good news is that those data breaches and cyber attacks accounted for just 18,407,479 breached records. With that in mind, here is our complete list of October’s cyber attacks and data breaches. Data breaches. Data breaches.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2021

Researchers discovered the availability in the DarK Web of 30M of records of Americans affected by the Astoria Company data breach. Collected data si shared with a number of partner sites (such as insurance or loan agencies), that pay per lead referral.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 24, 2019

Dominion National first spotted something awry in April of 2019

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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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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We logged 134 security incidents in December, which accounted for 148,354,955 breached records. We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The personal information of thousands of Israeli citizens has been compromised as the result of a cyberattack on Shirbit, a leading insurance company. . The post Major Israeli Insurance Company Hacked appeared first on Adam Levin.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Tribunal ruling noted Brexit campaign and insurance company owned by its key backer had a ‘two-faced approach to regulation’ The Leave.EU The companies were issued the fines two years ago, for including promotions for Banks’s GoSkippy insurance brand in emails to Leave.EU

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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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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A data breach suffered by Luxottica has exposed the personal and health information of patients of LensCrafters, Target Optical, and EyeMed. The exposed financial data includes budgets, marketing forecast analysis, and other sensitive data. Now the news of another data breach made the headlines, a security breach has exposed the personal and protected health information for patients of LensCrafters, Target Optical, EyeMed, and other eye care practices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Belden, the manufacturer of networking and cable products, disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen employee and business information. Limited company information accessed and stolen related to some of our business partners include bank account data and, for U.S.

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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. According to officials, the portal of Blue Cross of Idaho was breached on March 21 in an attempt to fraudulently reroute financial transactions made by providers. We take consumers’ privacy very seriously, and we are committed to keeping our members’ data secure,” said Blue Cross of Idaho Executive Vice President Paul Zurlo. “We

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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. Atrium Health was informed on October 1 that AccuDoc had detected unauthorized access to its databases that stored data related to payments made at several company locations, including Blue Ridge HealthCare System, Columbus Regional Health Network, NHRMC Physician Group, Scotland Physicians Network, and St.

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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. Data breaches, incidents in which personal information is accidentally or unlawfully stolen, lost, disclosed, accessed, altered or destroyed, can happen to organizations of any size and sector. When Should You Report a Data Breach? How Soon After a Breach Should You Report It?

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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). 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.

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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. American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) suffered a data breach that could impact many of its customers, the company still hasn’t disclosed details. The security breach has impacted roughly 12 million of Quest Diagnostics ‘ patients and roughly 7.7

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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. Oregon Department of Human Services officials confirmed that the organization has suffered a data breach that has exposed personal details and health information of 645,000 clients. “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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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

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. According to GSOC, the account was used in the past to arrange travel for group members and for this reason hackers may have been able to obtain personal data with their account access.

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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. Companies like retailers, banks, and healthcare providers began seeking out cyberinsurance in the early 2000s, when states first passed data breach notification laws. 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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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. “Closing agencies are supposed to be the only neutral party that doesn’t represent someone else’s interest, and you’re required to have title insurance if you have any kind of mortgage,” Shoval said.

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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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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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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 It is possible more businesses were impacted by the breach than originally estimated. The post Desjardins Data Breach Worse Than Originally Reported appeared first on Adam Levin.

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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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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. The breach case would have been the first of its kind considered by the nation's highest court

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