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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 11 – 18 December 2023

IT Governance

An investigation determined that personal data, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and bank account numbers, belonging to nearly 15 million people was obtained by an unauthorised party between 30 October and 1 November. Only 4 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in October 2023 – 867,072,315 Records Breached

IT Governance

IT Governance’s research has discovered the following for October 2023: 114 publicly disclosed security incidents. Our monthly blogs will provide analysis of the data we’ve collected and we’ll continue to discuss the biggest breaches on our 2023 overview of publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. It has since been confirmed by Anukul Peedkaew, the permanent secretary of social development and human security.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight More than 70 million email addresses added to Have I Been Pwned The security researcher Troy Hunt has added more than 70 million email addresses from the Naz.API data set to his Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service. Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 January 2024

IT Governance

Mobile network database breach exposes 750 million Indians’ personal data The Indian security company CloudSEK claims to have found the personal data of 750 million Indians for sale on an “underground forum”. Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. Data breached: 2 PB. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?