All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 24 2025 // Coalition today introduced Coalition Re’s Helios platform, a new tool that allows cedants to view real-time cyber risk exposures in their portfolios and manage them more effectively.With the Helios platform,...
Jun 23 2025 // Watch out, insurance industry. A well-known cybercrime group appears to have shifted focus to insurers.Apparently, recent cybersecurity incidents at Erie Insurance, Philadelphia Insurance Cos., and most recently Aflac are...
Jun 23 2025 // Canada’s cybersecurity agency said Chinese-backed hackers were likely behind recent malicious activity targeting domestic telecommunications infrastructure, warning that three network devices registered to a Canadian...
Jun 23 2025 // A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to a $177-million settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T over breaches in 2024 that exposed personal information belonging to tens of millions of the telecom...
Jun 20 2025 // Health and life insurer Aflac on Friday said it is investigating a breach on its U.S. network that may have exposed customers’ personal information, making it the latest insurance provider to be targeted in a...
Jun 19 2025 // Krispy Kreme released new information about its late 2024 data breach and said it is notifying affected individuals—many of them current or former employees, and their families.According to a post on its website and a...
Jun 19 2025 // Aon Promotes Rieth to Global Cyber LeaderAon plc, headquartered in London, promoted Brent Rieth to global cyber leader within Commercial Risk Solutions. Rieth, based in Chicago, Illinois, currently serves as head of Cyber...
Jun 19 2025 // UBS Group AG said that information about the company had been stolen in a cyber attack on one of its suppliers, following a report a Swiss newspaper that data on more than 130,000 employees had been subject to a...
Jun 18 2025 // Viasat Inc. is the latest US communications company identified as a victim of the sweeping surveillance hack blamed on the Chinese government that emerged during last year’s presidential campaign, according to people...
Jun 18 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Hamilton Re and Hamilton Global Specialty as well as Aon.A summary of these new hires follows here. Hamilton Re, Hamilton Global Specialty Name New CEOs,...
Jun 18 2025 // Erie Insurance said it has “seen no evidence of ransomware and there is no indication of ongoing threat actor activity” in a June 17 update on its 10-day long network outage.That statement would appear to...
Jun 17 2025 // The Texas Department of Transportation said a compromise of an account led to a data breach of a large number of crash records.On May 12, TxDOT identified unusual activity in its Crash Records Information System (CRIS)...
Jun 17 2025 // Not one but two class action lawsuits have been filed against Erie Insurance even as the insurer continues to investigate its cybersecurity incident.One lawsuit was filed by an Illinois customer, Neil Plascencia; the other...
Jun 16 2025 // The Washington Post is investigating a cyberattack on the email accounts of some journalists, prompting the newspaper to beef up its online security.The intrusion was discovered late Thursday and the company carried out a...
Jun 16 2025 // Canada’s WestJet Airlines is investigating a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted access to its mobile app and some internal systems, affecting an undisclosed number of users, the airlines said in a statement on...
Jun 16 2025 // Last year’s global IT outage due to CrowdStrike’s faulty update disrupted hundreds of businesses and essential services across multiple countries, pointedly illustrating a growing threat to organizations...
Jun 12 2025 // UK risk managers identified five key themes that could affect their businesses, topped by “technology, AI and cyber,” according to AIRMIC, the British risk management group, which conducted a survey of its...
Jun 11 2025 // United Natural Foods Inc., a grocery distributor for Amazon Inc.’s Whole Foods Market, is working to bring systems back online by June 15 and resume product deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted its operations,...
Jun 10 2025 // British retailer Marks & Spencer resumed taking online orders for clothing lines on Tuesday after a 46-day hiatus following a cyberattack.Shares in M&S, one of the best-known names in British business, were up 3.5%...
Jun 10 2025 // United Natural Foods Inc., one of the largest U.S. grocery distributors whose clients include Whole Foods, took certain systems offline in recent days after the discovery of unauthorized activity on internal networks, the...