Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

2 announcing a Cyber Insurance Risk Framework (the Framework) that describes industry best practices for New York-regulated property/casualty insurers. According to NYDFS, the incorporation of these practices should be proportionate to each insurer’s size, resources, geographic distribution, and other factors. The Framework.

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Data Matters

MAY 9, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Spring 2019 National Meeting (Spring Meeting) in Orlando, Florida, from April 6 to 9, 2019. The March 7, 2019, exposure drafts of the CFR Model Laws have been revised to address those comments as well as certain other comments received from interested parties.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

” The government alleges Mann was kiting millions of dollars in checks between his accounts at Bank of American and Pioneer from Aug. 1, 2019 to Aug. NatPay said its insurance should help cover the losses it incurred when MyPayrollHR’s banks froze the company’s accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

“The adversary is particularly interested in exploits related to VPNs and network appliances , including CVE-2019-11510, CVE-2019-19781, and most recently CVE-2020-5902; reliance on exploits such as these lends to an opportunistic operational model.” ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2019 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) in New York City from August 3 to 6, 2019. The amended regulation took effect on August 1, 2019, for annuity products and will become effective on February 1, 2020, for life insurance products.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2019

Identity governance and administration, or IGA , has suddenly become a front-burner matter at many enterprises. Related: Identity governance issues in the age of digital transformation. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Mike Kiser, global strategist at SailPoint , an Austin, TX-based supplier of IGA services to discuss this.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I count this month’s total of leaked records to be 692,853,046, bringing 2019’s total to 2,462,038,109. Possibility of data breach with mySalam health insurance scheme, Perkasa claims. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2019 – 692,853,046 records leaked appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

(“Carnival”), the world’s largest cruise-ship operator, for violations of the Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500) in connection with four cybersecurity events between 2019 and 2021, including two ransomware events. .

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IT Governance

JULY 6, 2020

million organisations fell victim to cyber crime in 2019. Beaming calculates that UK business lost almost £13 billion due to cyber crime in 2019, and when you factor in damaged assets, financial penalties and lost productivity, the total cost over the past five years is more than £87 billion. The benefits of certifying to the Standard.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the NAIC) held its Fall 2019 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) in Austin, Texas, from December 7 to 10, 2019. 2019 Revisions to the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law and the Credit for Reinsurance Model Regulation.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the NAIC) held its Fall 2019 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) in Austin, Texas, from December 7 to 10, 2019. 2019 Revisions to the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law and the Credit for Reinsurance Model Regulation.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On November 28, 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced that First American Title Insurance Company (“First American”), the second-largest title insurance company in the United States, would pay a $1 million penalty for violations of the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation in connection with a 2019 data breach.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 25, 2018

South Carolina became the first state to pass a law requiring all insurance entities to create and maintain a cybersecurity and data breach response program. . The law itself was drafted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Cybersecurity Working Group, and was adapted from a similar proposal in New York.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

In 2019, Dun & Bradstreet saw more than a 100 percent increase in business identity theft. She shared with me a copy of the lease, which included a fraudulent ID and even a vehicle insurance card for a Land Cruiser we got rid of like 15 years ago. For 2020, the company estimates an overall 258 percent spike in the crime.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. And second… Governance. Government – well for sure, I’d wager that’s increased given who’s been running the country these past two years. But Governance? Data Governance. We’ll start with Governance.

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The matter involved one of France’s largest insurers, SGAM AG2R LA MONDIALE, which was subject to an inspection by the French data protection authority (the CNIL), in 2019. The CNIL’s inspection included the insurer’s compliance with Section 5-1(e) of GDPR , which reads: Personal data shall be. Perhaps the CNIL’s €1.75

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Security Affairs

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.” ” continues the AP. million to hackers — about $2,400 per attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

“MIS worked over the weekend with the city’s cybersecurity insurer “to develop a detailed plan to restore and recover systems without spreading the ransomware,” according to a statement from Powell. “We L ocal authorities and feds have launched an investigation into the incident.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The legal complaint [PDF] notes that on July 9, 2019, the day it was hit by a ransomware attack, Springhill Memorial Hospital contended that the event had “not affected patient care.” ” Cyber Insurance No Longer Reliable. Hospital’s Operations Hit by Ransomware. Cyber Regulations Could Bring Fairness.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Local government agencies remain acutely exposed to being hacked. However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. That’s long been true.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 6, 2019

Students and undergraduate applicants to Lancaster University had their personal details stolen in a pair of breaches that were disclosed on 22 July 2019. Patients were also offered free one-year membership to an identity protection service, covering insurance, credit monitoring and identity theft recovery.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The hacking campaign has been active since July 2015 and continued until at least February 2019. . The Iranian hackers targeted individuals included in a list of 1,800 online accounts belonging to people working with aerospace and satellite companies, and government organizations. ” reads the DoJ’s press release.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2019

“On Monday June 10th, 2019, the City of Lake City was targeted by a malware attack known as ‘Triple Threat.'” Crooks made a request of a ransom a week after the initial infection, they contacted the Lake City’s insurance provider, the League of Cities, which negotiated a payment of 42 bitcoins.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

The hospital chain hasn’t revealed the amount it has paid to the crooks to decrypt the data, it seems that an insurance covered the cost. “As time goes by, and we determine the full impact of this, we will be very grateful we had cyber insurance in place.” ” continues the post.

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ARMA International

JANUARY 30, 2020

State and federal governments already have criminal DNA databases, but calls for mandatory, national databases were resisted. December 23, 2019. [2] December 20, 2019. [3] December 24, 2019. [4]. December 27, 2019. [5] But Matloff suggests it’s the concerns about surveillance that are truly front and center.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The government alleges Mann was kiting millions of dollars in checks between his accounts at Bank of American and Pioneer from Aug. 1, 2019 to Aug.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The news was swiftly followed up with an announcement from Medibank, Australia’s largest private health insurer, of a breach affecting all of its 3.9 As part of the Australian Government’s response to the public outcry generated by these breaches, a change to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) has been introduced into the Australian Parliament.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

These sectors include: insurance (both general and health insurance); groceries; loyalty schemes; non-bank lenders; superannuation; transport; government; health; education; and. agriculture. Sector designation. the potential for competition and innovation in the relevant sector and the Australian economy more broadly.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Fall 2018 National Meeting (Fall Meeting) in San Francisco, California, from November 15 to 18, 2018. NAIC Continues its Evaluation of Insurers’ Use of Big Data. systemic risk of insurers with other parts of the financial system, notably the banking.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The records also reveal how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. The government of Costa Rica is forced to declare a state of emergency after a ransomware attack by Conti cripples government systems.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses. MCNA Insurance MCNA Insurance, also known as MCNA Dental, was caught up in a cyber hacking incident last week, in which 112 covered entities were affected.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. IT Governance released its final Weekly Podcast.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 30, 2021

2 The SEC’s Pearson Order follows its June 2021 announcement that it had settled charges against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for cybersecurity disclosure control failures. The Order alleges that Pearson continued to use the server until July 2019 — the time the server was previously scheduled to be retired.

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Collibra

JANUARY 24, 2019

While what digital transformation looks like may vary, one thread runs through all interpretations: the importance of data and data governance. Everything from automating insurance claims and optimizing financial models, to performing medical diagnoses. 1 – Improve access to data in the cloud to drive innovation.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. Cloud-based health insurance management portals. State and local government competitive bidding portals. VCPI) was hit by the Ryuk ransomware strain. VCPI manages the IT systems for some 110 clients that serve approximately 2,400 nursing homes in 45 U.S.

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