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Cyber Insurance and the Changing Global Risk Environment

Security Affairs

When security fails, cyber insurance can become crucial for ensuring continuity. Our reliance on digital technology and the inherited risk is a key driving factor for buying cyber risk insurance. If the technology were to become unavailable, the resulting business impact could be mitigated with cyber insurance.

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HardBit ransomware gang adjusts their demands so the insurance company would cover the ransom cost

Security Affairs

Recently emerged HardBit ransomware gang adjusts their demands so the insurance company would cover the ransom cost. For those who have cyber insurance against ransomware attacks. But since the sneaky insurance agent purposely negotiates so as not to pay for the insurance claim, only the insurance company wins in this situation.

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Insurer: Breach Undetected for Nine Years

Data Breach Today

Dominion National Says Recently Discovered Incident Dates Back to 2010 A dental and vision insurer's revelation that it recently discovered a 9-year-old data security incident offers an extreme example of the difficulty some organizations have in detecting data breaches.

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Ransomware Attack's Economic Impact: $67 Million

Data Breach Today

Universal Health Services' Financial Statement Spells Out the Effects In an eye-opening look at the cost burden of a ransomware attack, Universal Health Services reports that an incident last September had a $67 million economic impact - citing, for example, the need to divert patients to competing facilities for urgent care.

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Thousands of Humana customers have their medical data leaked online by threat actors

Security Affairs

Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. Drug prescription listings).

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Riding the State Unemployment Fraud ‘Wave’

Krebs on Security

Secret Service warned of “massive fraud” against state unemployment insurance programs , noting that false filings from a well-organized Nigerian crime ring could end up costing the states and federal government hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Meanwhile, a number of U.S. Last week, the U.S. ” STATE WEB SITE WOES.

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Medical Debt Collection Firm R1 RCM Hit in Ransomware Attack

Krebs on Security

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.