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AUGUST 14, 2020

billion in 2019. The “RCM” portion of its name refers to “revenue cycle management,” an industry which tracks profits throughout the life cycle of each patient, including patient registration, insurance and benefit verification, medical treatment documentation, and bill preparation and collection from patients.

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JUNE 18, 2021

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. The SEC says First American derives nearly 92 percent of its revenue from its title insurance segment, earning $7.1 This week, the U.S. billion last year.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

“The files, which included driver information for licenses issued before February 2019, contained Texas driver license numbers, as well as names, dates of birth, addresses and vehicle registration histories. ” states the data breach notification published by the software provider.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

The chief executive of insurance giant Zurich warns that cyber attacks, rather than natural catastrophes, will become uninsurable. Mario Greco, chief executive of insurer giant Zurich, has warned that cyber attacks will become soon “uninsurable.”. What will become uninsurable is going to be cyber,” Mario Greco told the Financial Times.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

According to a joint report published by RiskIQ and FlashPoint in 2019 , some groups are more advanced than others, in particular, the gang tracked as Group 4 appears to be very sophisticated. Forensics experts hired by the company discovered that the malicious code was likely planted on September 16, 2019.

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

Stolen data spans from 2006 and 2019, local media outlets have confirmed their authenticity. “The cybercriminals put up for sale for $ 800 a database of 50 million lines with the data of drivers that were registered in Moscow and the Moscow region from 2006 to 2019. . ” continues the post.

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MAY 1, 2020

The hackers claim to have compromised the Banco BCR’s network in August 2019, and had the opportunity to exfiltrate its information before encrypting the files. Maze Ransomware ransomware operators recently disclose other attacks against different organizations, including IT services giant Cognizant , and cyber insurer Chubb.

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JUNE 27, 2020

In 2019, Burkov was accused of running the online criminal marketplace, Cardplanet, according to the investigators, the site helped crooks to organize more than $20 million in credit card fraud. The membership also requested a sum of money, normally $5,000, as insurance.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2019

That measure, which went into effect in March 2019 and is considered among the toughest in the nation, requires financial companies to regularly audit and report on how they protect sensitive data, and provides for fines in cases where violations were reckless or willful. ”

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MAY 9, 2019

The group is also responsible for the 2015 Health Insurer Anthem data breach. The US Department of Justice indicted Fujie Wang (32), a member of sophisticated Chinese hacking group that breached at several US companies, including the health insurer Anthem Inc. back in 2015. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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MAY 9, 2020

BEC attacks continue to threaten organizations worldwide, according to the last Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report , the FBI recorded 23,775 BEC attacks in 2019 that resulted in an estimated US$1.77 SilverTerrier has been active since at least 2014, it is a collective of over hundreds of individual threat actors.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

.” The Company states that its cybersecurity insurance will cover the financial losses and future expenses, however, the full scope of the costs and related impacts has yet to be determined.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

“The system that was hacked is used by insurance agents and brokers to directly enroll customers. Starting November 1, people can log in to HealthCare.gov, fill out an application, and enroll in a 2019 Marketplace health plan. 1 for health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.” ” reported the Associated Press.

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

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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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JUNE 4, 2019

1, 2018 and March 30, 2019. AMCA has advised LabCorp that Social Security Numbers and insurance identification information are not stored or maintained for LabCorp consumers.” Many readers wrote in to say they’d never heard of First American, but it is the largest title insurance company in the United States.

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JUNE 5, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Quest revealed that the attackers broke into the web payment portal of the American Medical Collection Agency between August 1, 2018 and March 30, 2019. ” AMCA confirmed that Social Security Numbers and insurance identification information are maintained for LabCorp consumers.

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JUNE 27, 2019

— Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) June 27, 2019. — Bitrue (@BitrueOfficial) June 27, 2019. The exchange claims the funds of impacted individuals are insured and it has promised that everyone will get their money back. The attackers transferred 9.3 million XRP (worth roughly $4 million) and 2.5

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Group-IB, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape in the “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020” report. According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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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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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 2, 2019

New cybersecurity rules for insurance companies licensed in South Carolina are set to take effect in part on January 1, 2019. The new law is the first in the United States to be enacted based on the data security model law drafted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

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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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JANUARY 7, 2020

Exposed data include names, addresses, dates of birth, medical record numbers, health insurance information and diagnosis and treatment details information. Attackers also accessed Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers for some patients. . The Alomere Health hospital started notifying impacted patients on January 3, 2020.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 25, 2022

Lloyd’s of London has announced that its insurance policies will no longer cover losses resulting from certain nation-state cyber attacks or acts of war. In a memo sent to the organisation’s insurance syndicates , Underwriting Director Tony Chaudhry said that Lloyd’s remains “strongly supportive” of policies that cover cyber attacks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2019

Another curious, if only coincidental, development: On April 4, 2019, the government of India sold “enemy” shares in Wipro worth approximately $166 million. “The buyers were state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), New India Assurance and General Insurance Corporation. . “A total of 44.4

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JUNE 20, 2019

. “The state is also providing 12 months of identity theft monitoring and recovery services, which includes a $1 million insurance reimbursement policy to impacted individuals.” The department was hit by a phishing campaign on January 8, 2019, and at least nine employees have been deceived in the attack.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 9, 2021

Tracey Santor is the bond product manager for Travelers , which insures a large number of financial institutions against this type of crime. In 2019, the average amount stolen in a traditional bank robbery was just $1,797, according to the FBI. In nearly all cases, the perpetrators are done in less than five minutes.

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MAY 8, 2019

The good news for the customers is that its Secure Asset Fund for Users ( SAFU ) emergency insurance fund will cover the incident in full. “We have discovered a large scale security breach today, May 7, 2019 at 17:15:24 (UTC). — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) May 8, 2019. Much appreciated!

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Justices Rule Against Software Developer in Bid to Use Insurance to Cover Attack An Ohio software developer that attempted to use business insurance to pay for a 2019 ransomware attack was stymied by the Ohio Supreme Court.

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MAY 27, 2019

The US real-estate insurance biz, First American Financial, accidentally leaked customers’ highly personal files online, hundreds of millions of documents. The US real-estate insurance company First American Financial Corp. accidentally leaked hundreds of millions of documents. billion in 2018. billion in 2018.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Researchers found about 435,000 payslips, 300 tax filings, 3,800 insurance payment documents, and 21,000 salary sheets belonging to various companies using the HR platform’s services. Worryingly, it also allowed threat actors to modify the data, changing salary amounts and details of bank accounts used for salary payments.

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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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APRIL 8, 2021

The cardshop has been operating since at least April 2019, and by March 2021, it had more than 12K user base and over 600K payment card records on sale. Group-IB notified the national CERTs in the above-mentioned countries about the breach so they could take the necessary steps to mitigate the threat. ever since.

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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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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2021

The first question asked about a new mortgage I supposedly took out in 2019 (I didn’t), and the answer was none of the above. According to Experian’s FAQ, when locked your Experian credit file remains accessible to a host of companies, including: -Potential employers or insurance companies. But Experian is hardly alone.

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