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JANUARY 14, 2019

Zurich American Insurance Company is refusing to refund its client because consider the attack as “an act of war” that is not covered by its policy. The overall damages that insurance firms would probably have to cover reach over $80bn. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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. Magellan Health Inc. ” concludes the company.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

After Insurance, Fast-Food Chain's Breach Costs Are Nearly $34 Million Fast-food giant Wendy's has reached a $50 million settlement agreement with financial institutions that sued after attackers planted RAM-scraping malware on point-of-sale systems in 1,025 of its restaurants in 2015 and 2016, stealing massive quantities of payment card data.

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JULY 6, 2020

Xchanging is a business process and technology services provider and integrator, which provides technology-enabled business services to the commercial insurance industry. Xchanging is primarily an insurance managed services business that operates on a standalone basis.” Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, DXC).

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Leaked data includes 14 folders and 53,555 files divided into the following categories: Passport scans Flight bookings Hotel bookings Email communications between Airlink International Group employees and customers Insurance policy for international travel. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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JULY 8, 2019

The good news is that La Porte County has a cyber insurance that will cover part of the costs sustained to restore the activity after the attack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 16, 2020

Researchers at cybernews.com recently uncovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket that contains more than 36,000 documents, including scans of passports, credit cards, and health insurance cards. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. What data is in the bucket?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

the individual paying for a patient’s bill), including name, date of birth, address, insurance policy details, medical record number, invoice number, account balance, date of service and, in some cases, social security number. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Luke’s Physician Network.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole “hundreds of thousands of documents,” including tens of thousands files related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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JULY 9, 2019

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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the data breach notice published by the Maryland Department.

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MAY 1, 2020

Maze Ransomware ransomware operators recently disclose other attacks against different organizations, including IT services giant Cognizant , and cyber insurer Chubb. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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APRIL 30, 2019

The good news for the investors is that the company has a robust cyber insurance in place with recognized insurers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The company did not pay any ransom and has filed a complaint with Norwegian police that is investigating the incident.

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JUNE 27, 2020

The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance. The suspect was arrested in Israel in 2015, his case made the headlines multiple times because media speculated a possible prisoner swap with Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American that was arrested in Russia on cannabis charges. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

. “IDX identity protection services include: 12 months of credit and CyberScan monitoring, a $1,000,000 insurance reimbursement policy, and fully managed ID theft recovery services. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MARCH 27, 2019

” “Hydro has a solid cyber risk insurance policy with recognized insurers, with global insurer AIG as lead,” the company stated. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 12, 2020

The payment will me made using the city’s insurance fund in an effort to preserve information of city workers and customers and quickly resume operations. “It Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MAY 9, 2020

The attacks targeted a major utility provider, a university, and a government agency in the United States, a health agency in Canada, a health insurance provider, an energy company in Australia, and a European medical publishing company to deliver various malware families. ” continues the report. 111 for command and control.

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JUNE 13, 2020

Experts are also seeing an increase in the number of attacks masquerading as COVID-19 symptom tracking along phishing scams targeting insurance companies because people are looking to buy health insurance. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Google notes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Our investigations also show that the suspect had intended to use the data to create marketing leads to offer insurance and credit-related services.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Our investigations do not indicate that any misappropriated data has been used for fraudulent purposes.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

“The system that was hacked is used by insurance agents and brokers to directly enroll customers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . “Officials said the hacked system was shut down and technicians are working to restore it before sign-up season starts Nov. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

The sad aspect of the story is that the airport authority decided to pay the ransom with the economical coverage of the insurance carrier. “The authority’s insurance carrier authorized payment of the ransom, which airport CEO Philip Calderone only said was “under six figures.”” Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 20, 2019

On Monday, city officials participating to a rapid meeting unanimously voted to use the city’s insurance to pay a ransom of 65 bitcoins (~$603,000). “The payment is being covered by insurance.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues the AP.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

In a letter sent to members, Christina Salcido, vice president of mission operations for GSOC, confirmed that attackers may have accessed to names, birth dates, home addresses, insurance policy numbers and health history for some members. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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APRIL 24, 2020

These images include a screenshot of folders on a SeaChange server compromised by the gang, insurance certificates, a driver’s license, and a cover letter for a proposal sent to the Pentagon. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

In 2015, the company controlled 55% of the U.S. “VF will be seeking reimbursement of costs, expenses and losses stemming from the cyber incident by submitting claims to VF’s cybersecurity insurers. American global apparel and footwear company VF Corp revealed that the December data breach impacted 35.5 million customers.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Blue Cross of Idaho announced to have suffered a data breach, hackers accessed to the personal information of about 5,600 customers. We have not identified any unauthorized use of personal data and will keep close watch for illegitimate activity,”.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance. The suspect was arrested in Israel in 2015, his case made the headlines multiple times because media speculated a possible prisoner swap with Naama Issachar, an Israeli-American that was arrested in Russia on cannabis charges. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 20, 2018

But Most Victims of the Health Insurer's Data Breach Will See No Cash A federal judge in California has given final approval to a $115 million settlement involving health insurer Anthem over its 2015 data breach.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The hacking campaign has been active since July 2015 and continued until at least February 2019. . According to a recently published CISA’s report , Iranian hackers from an unnamed APT group are employing several known web shells, in attacks on IT, government, healthcare, financial, and insurance organizations across the United States.

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APRIL 6, 2020

The images include scans of government-issued IDs, retail club membership and loyalty cards, NRA membership cards, gift cards, credit cards with all details exposed (including CVV), medical insurance cards, medical marijuana ID cards, and more. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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APRIL 30, 2019

. “We are working closely with the Diocese and its insurance program to file a claim in the hopes that Marous Brothers Construction can receive their payment quickly and we can bring this important project for our parish to a positive completion,” Stec said in the letter. ” Stec added. billion” reads the report.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

The retailer is offering MyIDCare identity theft protection services through ID Experts, it includes 12 months of credit and CyberScan monitoring, a $1,000,000 insurance reimbursement policy, and fully managed id theft recovery services. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

” LifeLabs is offering cybersecurity protection services to its customers, including identity theft and fraud protection insurance. “Any customer who is concerned about this incident can receive one free year of protection that includes dark web monitoring and identity theft insurance.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2019

” It seems that $100,000 out of $130,000 are being covered by insurance. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The Ryuk virus got into the backup servers.” The decision is essential to discourage criminal practice. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – La Porte, ransomware).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

.” PIONEER KITTEN hackers to date have focused their attacks against entities in North American and Israeli, while targeted sectors include technology, government, defense, healthcare, aviation, media, academic, engineering, consulting and professional services, chemical, manufacturing, financial services, insurance, and retail. .

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the CISA’s report , Iranian hackers from an unnamed APT group are employing several known web shells, in attacks on IT, government, healthcare, financial, and insurance organizations across the United States. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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