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UK Conservatives Say 'No' to Cyber Insurance Backstop

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Committee Chairs Accuses UK of Favoring an 'Ostrich Strategy' For Ransomware The Conservative government of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says it won't champion a reinsurance plan for cyber insurance similar to flood insurance, telling a parliamentary committee it doesn't want to "damage competition."

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Insurance Broker Notifying 1.5 Million of Health Info Hack

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California Firm Said August Attack Affected Clients' Data A California insurance broker that handles employee benefits, workers' compensation and property liability is notifying more than 1.5

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Insurer Tokio Marine Hit by Ransomware

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Firm Says Singapore Unit Was Targeted Tokio Marine, a Japan-based property and casualty insurer, says its Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore unit was hit by a ransomware attack this week.

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New HardBit 2.0 Ransomware Tactics Target Insurance Coverage

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Hackers Demand Info on Victim's Cyber Insurance Policy to Negotiate Ransom Demand The newly relaunched HardBit 2.0 ransomware group is now demanding victims disclose details of their cyber insurance coverage before negotiating a ransom demand.

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Australian Insurer Medibank Says Incident Was Ransomware

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Apparent Spate of Australian Data Breaches Continues Australian health insurer Medibank told investors it stopped a probable ransomware attack before the attack could steal data or maliciously encrypt its systems.

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Breach Roundup: Swedish Insurer Fined $3M for GDPR Breach

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Also, Google Fitbit Faces Privacy Complaints From Schrems This week, the Swedish DPA fined an insurer $3 million for violating GDPR, a DDoS attack disrupted a German financial agency website, Google Fitbit faced privacy complaints from Schrems, Ragnar Locker published hacked hospital data, and Seville, Spain dealt with the aftermath of a ransomware (..)

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Changing Data Quantification in Security Insurance

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Lynn Peachey, the director of business development at Arete Incident Response, says that insurance companies have made "a pretty quick turnaround in terms of trying to respond to the ransomware epidemic." She discusses the changes they are making, which include leveraging data quantification.

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