Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Earlier this month, auto insurance giant Geico disclosed that fraudsters abused a bug in its site to steal drivers license numbers from Americans. Geico said the data was used by thieves involved in fraudulently applying for unemployment insurance benefits.

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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Mr. Davies was charged with murder and fraud after he attempted to collect GBP 132,000 in her life insurance payout, but British prosecutors ultimately conceded they did not have enough evidence to convict him. A search on John Clifton Davies and Iryna turned up this 2013 story from The Daily Mirror which says Iryna is John C.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In 2013, Kurittu worked on investigation involving Kivimaki’s use of the Zbot botnet, among other activities Kivimaki engaged in as a member of the hacker group Hack the Planet. The entire archive has since been made into a searchable website on the Dark Web. “There were also other projects and databases.”

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 15, 2013

On October 7, 2013, the United States District Court for the Central District of California held that a general liability insurance policy covered data breach claims alleging violations of California patients’ right to medical privacy. Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. Corcino & Associates , CV 13-03728-GAF (C.D.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

On November 4, 2013, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, which is the Chinese regulatory and administrative authority for the insurance sector, issued the Interim Measures for the Management of the Authenticity of Information of Life Insurance Customers (the “Measures”).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2021

In a report released in 2019 (PDF), Agari profiled a group it dubbed “ Scattered Canary ” that is operating principally out of West Africa and dabbles in a dizzying array of schemes, including BEC and romance scams, FEMA and SBA loans, unemployment insurance fraud, counterfeit checks and of course money laundering. Image: Agari.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Securities and Exchange Commission that its health insurance subsidiary, Triple-S Salud, Inc. Triple S”), which is Puerto Rico’s largest health insurer, will be fined $6.8 million for a data breach that occurred in September 2013.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Hunton & Williams Insurance Litigation & Counseling partner Lon Berk reports: As the demand for cyber insurance has skyrocketed, so too has the cost. One broker estimates that sales in 2014 will double from the $1 billion premium collected in 2013. As these payment technologies become prevalent in the U.S.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enacted in 1996, established national standards to safeguard sensitive patient health information (PHI) and prevent unauthorized disclosures. In 2023 alone, over 167 million people were affected.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 16, 2021

According to the Regulators, the Proposed Guidance largely would adopt the text of the OCC’s 2013 guidance, broadening its scope to include organizations supervised by all three Regulators.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. The Starwood hack appears to come in second in scale only to the 2013 Yahoo breac h, which affected as many as 3 billion accounts, while a subsequent Yahoo breach also hit 500 million accounts.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The settlement stemmed from the theft of two laptops stolen from Horizon headquarters in November 2013, when personnel from outside vendors performing renovations and moving services at Horizon’s Newark headquarters had unsupervised access to the area where company laptops were stored.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

4th 390, 393 (2013) (allowing “unlawful” UCL claim for violations of the federal Truth in Savings Act despite no express private right of action because Congress intended for state laws to hold banks to equivalent standards); see also Zhang v. 11-16351, 2013 WL 98554, at *1 (9th Cir. Bank of America, N.A. , Fireman’s Fund Ins.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 16, 2021

The Court held that OCR’s civil monetary penalty for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule was “arbitrary, capricious, and otherwise unlawful.”. OCR investigated and imposed the $4.3

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Recent months have seen a significant increase in highly-publicized cyber attacks and cybersecurity incidents, including an August 2013 attack on The New York Times’ website that shut down the site twice in two weeks. Unsurprisingly, there also has been an upswing in the demand for, and underwriting of, cyber insurance.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

insurance giant Beazley Worldwide reported that the average ransomware demand in 2018 was more than $116,000, a figure admittedly skewed by some very large demands. Here’s a timeline of recent ransomware advances: •2013-2014. A poll of IT pros in the U.S., Canada, Germany and the U.K. In its most recent annual report , U.K.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA). Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It therefore intends to cover standard customer data processing activities carried out by any data controller, except (1) health or educational institutions; (2) banking or similar institutions; (3) insurance companies; and (4) operators subject to approval by the French Online Gambling Regulatory Authority.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 1, 2013

On April 19, 2013, the North Dakota legislature amended the state’s breach notification law (Section 51-30-01 of the North Dakota Century Code) to expand the definition of “personal information” to include “health insurance information” and “medical information.” The amendments took effect on August 1, 2013.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

With robust encryption policies, Evervault can help reduce insurance premiums and offers PCI-DSS and HIPAA compliance automation. Cowbell Cyber is a dedicated cyber insurance company that relies on continuous risk assessment, AI data analytics, and real-time underwriting to give clients pre- and post-breach services. Cowbell Cyber.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Wiz Cloud security 2020 Private Evervault Developer encryption 2019 Private Verkada Security surveillance 2019 Private Armis IoT network security 2015 Private Sumo Logic Threat intelligence 2014 Nasdaq: SUMO Okta Identity management 2013 Nasdaq: OKTA Barracuda Enterprise security 2006 Private. Accel Investments.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In 2013, Adam Markowitz founded Portfolium, an edtech startup that matched college students and graduates with employers. “I In the case of Lemonade – an online insurance company – it spent over 200 hours on the process. The process for creating the report was time-consuming, manual and costly.

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ARMA International

APRIL 28, 2022

I have been a member of the OAR staff at the ANO since March 2013. The plan was to meet the insurance coordinator at the Howard Avenue office at 8:30 a.m. I was aware that I would need documentation on damage and losses for insurance and internal purposes. The insurance coordinator proposed stabilizing in place.

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has imposed a $1,600,000 civil money penalty against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (TX HHSC), for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules between 2013 […]. The post OCR Imposes a $1.6

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 13, 2023

On June 6, 2023, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued their final Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships (“Guidance”).

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Another small firm suffers a serious ransomware attack: Cadre Services gets mauled by AlphV Date of breach: 19 September 2013 (AlphV uploaded first part of data to its website on 19 October 2023). American Family Insurance confirms cyberattack is behind IT outages Date of breach: 14 or 15 October 2023.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Today, September 23, 2013, marks the deadline for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Omnibus Rule that was issued in January 2013.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Conducted by the SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) from 2013 through April 2014, the examinations inspected the cybersecurity practices of 57 registered broker-dealers and 49 registered investment advisers through interviews and document reviews.

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Adam Levin

MAY 19, 2021

Experian, 2013 – 2015: Hackers stole a trove of information from T-Mobile customers whose data had passed through Experian to check credit there and open a new account. Many companies now offer insurance policies that can help you recoup lost money, and even help you through the reporting and recovery process.

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IT Governance

MAY 29, 2018

Insurance startup leaks sensitive customer health data. Bombas notifies consumers of breach going back to 2013. Jaguar Land Rover data leak reveals employee records, upcoming layoffs. Aultman data breach may have accessed patient information. County Clerk’s Office tossing personal, sensitive customer information in the trash.

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Data Matters

JUNE 9, 2021

The Notice further states that the data will never be shared with marketing or insurance companies. Although the GP data collection was set to take place as of July 1, 2021, on June 8, 2021 it was announced that the launch will be postponed to September 1, 2021.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 9, 2013

On May 7, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it issued letters to ten data broker companies warning that their practices could violate prohibitions against selling consumer information under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”).

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Lee: FFS, an insurance broker, requested the production of all written communication after the defendants violated their contract by sharing company information after termination. Consequently, attorney fees were issued, and the case was terminated. These methods are time-consuming and harder to authenticate in court. [5]. 4] Anthony J.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 21, 2014

Matt Ingram takes a strong POV on recent moves by the Internet giants to insure shareholders don’t have much power. In 2013, Overtaking Broadcast TV – TechCrunch. You may own shares in Google and Facebook, but you have virtually no say in what they do — and that’s wrong – GigaOm .

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 3, 2013

On January 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a final omnibus rule modifying prior regulations enacted pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

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ChiefTech

APRIL 7, 2013

Jive''s Getting Serious With Social Business dinner, evening of the 10th April - this event will feature ACE Insurance, NBNCo, REA Group, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and PwC. If you can''t make Sydney, they will be in Melbourne in June. Government 2.0 If you are attending any of these events, don''t forget to say hello.'

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