Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 6, 2019

On August 2, 2019, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed into law SB 194 (the “Bill”), which requires insurers licensed in the state (“licensees”) to put in place data security programs and report cybersecurity events. The state insurance commissioner may take “necessary or appropriate” action to enforce the new law.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

“However, VF does not collect or retain in its IT systems any consumer social security numbers, bank account information or payment card information as part of its direct-to-consumer practices, and, while the investigation remains ongoing, VF has not detected any evidence to date that any consumer passwords were acquired by the threat actor.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

For example, in 2019 McAfee found that for targets in Japan, the 16Shop kit would also collect Web ID and Card Password, while US victims will be asked for their Social Security Number. You’ve probably never heard of “ 16Shop ,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. Image: Akamai.com.

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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. Here are this week’s stories.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing its employee accounts for weak passwords. Citrix provides software used by hundreds of thousands of clients worldwide, including most of the Fortune 100 companies. But in a letter sent to affected individuals dated Feb.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

A reader who was recently the victim of unemployment insurance fraud said he was told he should create an account at the Department of Homeland Security ‘s myE-Verify website , and place a lock on his Social Security number (SSN) to minimize the chances that ID thieves might abuse his identity for employment fraud in the future.

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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? What’s the impact?

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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. Also read: Top 8 Cyber Insurance Companies for 2022 Best Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services. Instructions were issued to change passwords immediately.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

com — from a desktop web browser redirects the visitor to a harmless page with ads for car insurance quotes. .” com — from a desktop web browser redirects the visitor to a harmless page with ads for car insurance quotes. “It is a nearly perfect attack vector at this time of year,” Morton said.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2023

TFS offers various financial products, including auto loans, leases, and insurance solutions. Leaked sample data includes financial documents, invoices, hashed account passwords, passport scans, and more. Toyota Financial Services (TFS) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to sensitive personal and financial data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

TFS offers various financial products, including auto loans, leases, and insurance solutions. Leaked sample data includes financial documents, invoices, hashed account passwords, passport scans, and more. Toyota Financial Services confirmed the discovery of unauthorized activity on systems in a limited number of its locations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The CLOP members said one tried-and-true method of infecting healthcare providers involved gathering healthcare insurance and payment data to use in submitting requests for a remote consultation on a patient who has cirrhosis of the liver. Alex Holden is founder of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The company announced to have taken steps to improve the security of its infrastructure after the security breach, such as the adoption of multi-factor authentication protocols, performing an enterprise-wide password reset, and the deployment of endpoint detection solutions. The company confirmed that it did not pay a ransom.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

In other words, bad actors glean lists of breached usernames and passwords and run them against desired logins until they find some that work. PayPal reset the passwords of the affected accounts and will force impacted users to create new password the next time they log in to their account.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 18, 2022

For example, an Access Policy could have clearly labeled sections to define Password Policy , User Access , Privileged Access , Access Review Processes, and Remote Access because each of these access categories may be required to be reviewed by an auditor. Written Policies vs. Implemented IT Policies. Implemented IT Policies.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. 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. Park: Exactly.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation disclosed a data breach after it was hit with Lockbit ransomware attack. Wabtec Corporation is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999. ” concludes Wabtec.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

The database was posted on a different underground forum and contained 12,344 records of the card shop admins, sellers and buyers including their nicknames, hashed passwords, contact details, history of activity, and current balance. Cardshop users, however, were recommended to change the passwords shortly after the breach report came out.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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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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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

According to the settlement agreement, the AG concluded that EyeMed’s security practices did not meet the requirements of the SHIELD Act with respect to four requirements: authentication, password management, logging and monitoring, and data retention in the email account. In total, information for approximately 2.1

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The incident began late last year, after criminal hackers broke into the organisation’s systems and installed malware. 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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Viable choices such as hard tokens allow access to software and verifies identity with a physical device instead of authentication codes or passwords. Update or draft an incident response plan, in accordance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security rules.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We can provide VDI & VPN + all passwords of domain dump (with DA usr’s) Their funds is in B$ Price 7.5BTC We will request for proof that one can afford to avoid time wasters etc…” reads the announcement. An initial access broker claims to have hacked Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its systems for sale on Telegram.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Kevin Richards of the insurer Marsh joins us to talk about that company's Cyber Risk Perceptions Survey. In this episode of Security Ledger Podcast (#163) sponsored by LastPass: Kevin Richards of the insurer Marsh joins us to talk about that company’s Cyber Risk Perceptions Survey. Read the whole entry. » Its my top concern.

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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

Anyone who has provided their login credentials when responding to this message should assume that they’ve handed their password to the scammers. More than 2 million people are signed up to YouTube’s Partner Program, which enables them to collect ad revenue. YouTube has said its team are investigating the phishing campaign. “We’re

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

But the password to the Gunnebo RDP account — “password01” — suggests the security of its IT systems may have been lacking in other areas as well. But the password to the Gunnebo RDP account — “password01” — suggests the security of its IT systems may have been lacking in other areas as well.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Compromised information included patients’ names, dates of birth, postal addresses, Social Security numbers, diagnosis and treatment information, and health insurance information. Records breached: 815,000,000 Milford Management Corp. It secured its systems, notified law enforcement and began investigating the incident.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2022

” The company notified urged employees to change their user passwords. The company forced a password reset and is implementing multifactor authentication for all users of its systems. The attack took place on October 15, 2021, when threat actors breached the hospital’s network and accessed patient data.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 17, 2019

Arizona and 15 other states (the “Multistate AGs”) filed the suit in December 2018, asserting claims under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (“HIPAA”) as well as various applicable state data protection laws. MIE”) and its wholly owned subsidiary NoMoreClipboard, LLC. million individuals.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

For T-Mobile, this is the sixth major breach since 2018. The attacker claims to have compromised an end-of-lifed GPRS system that was exposed to the internet and was able to pivot from it to the internal network, where they were able to launch a brute force authentication attack against internal systems. We all know security is hard.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The stolen laptops contained policyholder electronic Protected Health Information (“ePHI”), including names, addresses, birth dates, insurance identifications and, in some cases, Social Security numbers and clinical data. The policyholder data was password protected but not encrypted, in violation of HIPAA and HITECH.

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