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Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. The common demonitor: All of those organizations have now disclosed massive data breaches over a span of the past five years.
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million settlement with Athens Orthopedic Clinic PA (“Athens Orthopedic”) for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $1.5
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That included social security and social insurance numbers, bank account numbers, phone numbers, birth dates, email addresses and self-reported income; in short, just about everything on an identity thief’s wish list. Not nearly enough attention is being given to vulnerabilities that are being quietly and intensively exploited.
On October 25, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission released a guide for businesses on how to handle and respond to data breaches (the “Guide”). The Guide also underscores the need for cyber-specific insurance to help offset potentially significant response costs.
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UK businesses that experienced an attack or a breach in the prior 12 months, according to the UK government’s Cyber Security Breaches Surveys 2016–2023 A hard look at the statistics The downtrend since 2020, especially for small and micro businesses, may make organisations feel able to cut cyber security spending. This is a false economy.
billion on security technology in 2016—and still, experience data breaches. As a result, companies are turning to cyber insurance. Certainly, insurers will be happy for the additional business, but they won’t be handing out claim payouts easily. Will this be the cyber insurance equivalent to Fitbit? So, what can be done?
On October 18, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in Apache Corp. Apache recouped a portion of the payments from its bank and attempted to recover the balance from its insurer. Apache was insured under a crime-protection insurance policy issued by Great American Insurance Company (“GAIC”).
Related: Data breaches fuel fledgling cyber insurance market. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Nation Vulnerbility Database , logged around 14,000 unique vulnerabilities, up from 13,000 in 2017 and 6,000 in 2016. Enterprises, especially, tend to be methodical and plodding.
Eventually, governments will address the risk by beefing up security and purchasing cyber insurance, which go hand in glove. Ransomware attacks against local government entities at some point will run its course. For a quick, comprehensive summary review the coverage of Robert Mueller’s report and Congressional testimony.
On October 19, 2016, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve System (the “Fed”) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking suggesting new cybersecurity regulations for banks with assets totaling more than $50 billion (the “Proposed Standards”).
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