All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 12 2023 // A former First Republic Bank cloud engineer in San Francisco was sentenced to two years in prison for vandalizing the company’s computer network after he was fired in 2020.Miklos Daniel Brody logged into the...
Dec 12 2023 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has obtained a settlement with Blackbaud, Inc. (“Blackbaud”) to ensure that the South Carolina-based software provider corrects its deficient data security privacy practices...
Dec 12 2023 // Ukraine’s biggest mobile network operator said it hoped to restore operations by Wednesday after coming under what appeared to be the largest cyberattack since Russia launched its war on the country in February...
Dec 12 2023 // The amount of funds crypto projects lost to hackers has declined by about half to around $1.7 billion so far this year, amid improved security measures and an uptick in law enforcement actions.Even with any additional...
Dec 12 2023 // Some patients of a Seattle, Washington-based cancer center received threatening emails following a data breach last month.Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center officials said a Nov. 19 hack hit a portion of the health care...
Dec 11 2023 // New York Attorney General Letitia James today secured $400,000 from dental insurance provider Healthplex, Inc. for failing to properly protect the personal and medical information of New Yorkers.Healthplex, a Long...
Dec 11 2023 // The HTX exchange, a digital-asset trading platform linked to China-born industry mogul Justin Sun, has suffered a $258 million net outflow since resuming operations after suffering a major hack.The funds left the exchange...
Dec 8 2023 // Howden, the global insurance group, today announces the launch of one of the first dedicated European cyber and technology errors & omissions line slips for primary business.The product is led by Canopius and IQUW with...
Dec 8 2023 // The US and UK have launched a coordinated effort to disrupt a longtime alleged Russian government hacking campaign aimed at what they say is an attempt to undermine democratic processes in both their countries.The UK...
Dec 5 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon and Markel.A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon Promotes Clarke to Head of Renewables, Global Broking Centre & UKInsurance broker Aon plc...
Dec 5 2023 // Some 6.9 million 23andMe customers had their data compromised after an anonymous hacker accessed user profiles and posted them for sale on the internet earlier this year, the company said on Monday.The compromised data...
Dec 4 2023 // A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made,...
Dec 1 2023 // Hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and sewage-treatment utilities, potentially threatening water supplies, the top U.S. cyberdefense agency said after a Pennsylvania water authority was...
Nov 30 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Benjamin Franklin was a big fan of insurance, but he might have been a bit nonplussed if someone had given him a preview of the industry in 2023. Risks have changed, and...
Nov 30 2023 // A ransomware attack has prompted a healthcare chain that operates 30 hospitals in six states to divert patients from at least some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals, while putting certain elective procedures on...
Nov 29 2023 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Markel and Costero Brokers.A summary of these new hires follows here. Markel Appoints Howden’s Woodhouse for War and Terrorism TeamMarkel, the...
Nov 29 2023 // Okta Inc. has discovered that hackers who breached its network two months ago stole information on all users of its customer support system — a scope far greater than the 1% of customers the company had previously said...
Nov 29 2023 // For the first time, a cyber-catastrophe bond has made its way into public debt markets.Long Walk Reinsurance Ltd. issued a $75 million so-called cat bond, sponsored by AXIS Capital, to insure against “a...
Nov 28 2023 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that First American Title Insurance Co. will pay a $1 million penalty to New York State for violations of DFS’s cybersecurity regulation stemming...
Nov 28 2023 // Much more work and collaboration needs to be done but the U.S. Treasury has reached a “tentative conclusion” that a potential federal cyber insurance backstop will be focused on catastrophic cyber...