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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: October 2024

23andMe agreed to pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company of failing to protect the privacy of 6.9 million customers whose personal information...more

Genova Burns LLC

Potential Harm Enough For Class Action to Proceed in Data Breach Litigation

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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has given new life to a putative class action suit led by a former employee of a company that suffered a ransomware attack, leading to her sensitive information being released onto the Dark...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Scams and Viruses: Which Email Attachments Are Safe to Open?

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Email scams and viruses are nothing new—threats like phishing emails and malware have been around since the days when services like AOL still dominated the internet and email landscape. However, while technology has made a...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Cyber Insurance Policies May Not Cover Phishing Attack Funds Diversion

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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals is considering an appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida , in which the District Court ruled that a cyber insurance policy did not cover diversion...more

Miller Nash LLP

An Alaska Court Goes Fishing for Insurance, Hooking Another Policyholder Win in a Phishing Scam Case

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As an update to our March 8, 2022 blog post discussing coverage for phishing scams in the context of Ernst & Haas Mgt. Co. v. Hiscox, Inc., 23 F.4th 1195 (9th Cir. 2022), a new Alaska case relied on Ernst & Haas to find...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Ransomware Attacks Continue to Cause More Underwriter Scrutiny

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Continued widespread cyber attacks have leaders in just about every industry wary and watchful, and insurance underwriters are no exception. Given the increase in claims from recent ransomware attacks, cyber insurers are...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

$6 Million Phishing Loss Does not Trigger Coverage Under Crime Policies

A federal district court in Dallas, Texas has held that an insured's commercial crime policies were not triggered by a $6 million phishing loss where the insured did not "hold" the stolen funds. The case is RealPage Inc. v....more

Bracewell LLP

Does Work-From-Home Work for Your Company's Cyber Insurance?

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The start of a new year is always a good reminder to take some time to review key areas and assess whether changes are in order. There are many examples of this both personally and professionally, but a company’s insurance...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Cyber Exposures Rise During Pandemic

Although it is logical that cyber attacks have risen during the pandemic, and there is anecdotal evidence that it is occurring, including our own experience, an interesting new report was recently released by Allianz, which...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Health Care Facilities Are Under Cyberattack; Cyber Insurance Provides A Valuable Defense

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U.S. hospitals, already on the front lines of fighting the coronavirus pandemic, are now facing viral attacks by cybercriminals. More than 20 U.S. hospitals and health care organizations have reported their data being held...more

Zelle  LLP

Conflicts in Circuits’ Approach to Email Scams Hold Lessons

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With unprecedented activity online, cybercrime is growing in frequency, sophistication and aggregate effect. Despite the increased visibility of cybercrime, cybersecurity continues to lag behind this curve. Cybercriminals...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Phishing Continues to Be Seen as Biggest Cybersecurity Threat to Companies

According to a recent survey of cybersecurity professionals by AT&T Cybersecurity entitled “Confidence: the perception and reality of cybersecurity threats,” phishing and cloud security threats are keeping them up at night....more

Baker Donelson

Protecting LTC Residents' PHI: Eight Tips for Avoiding a Data Breach

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Organizations that meet the definition of "covered entity" under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations (HIPAA) must be diligent to maintain the privacy and security...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FTC Cyber Guidance for Small Business has Tips Helpful to All

The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a cyber guide that, while intended for small businesses, can be of help for all businesses. The purpose of the guide, which includes various modules, is to help smaller businesses...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Cyber Insurance: Court’s Recent Decisions May Change What Your Policy Covers

Cyber incidents can take many forms—phishing, insider theft, SQL injection, malware, denial of service, session hijacking, credential farming, or just old fashion “hacking.” Although many of these attack vectors employ...more

Troutman Pepper

New Case May Signal Greater Likelihood That Insurers Are on the Hook for Coverage in Phishing Attacks

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A new Sixth Circuit decision may signal an emerging trend on whether insurers must cover claims made by policyholders who fall victim to phishing scams....more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Two New Federal Decisions Are Beacons for Policyholders Navigating Computer Fraud Claims for Spoofing Losses

On insurance coverage issues, sometimes the boat seems to be listing in the wrong direction. For example, insurers have long tilted the decks to avoid coverage for “spoofing” attacks and similar kinds of email fraud by...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Cybersecurity: Spear Phishing Covered Under Insurance Policy Where Code Manipulated

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Increasingly, insureds faced with cyber fraud losses are going to the courts to interpret their policies. In The Brick Warehouse LP v. Chubb Insurance Company of Canada, 2017 ABQB 413 [The Brick Warehouse], and in Taylor &...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Ransomware is taking the world by storm; does insurance respond?

On June 27, 2017, the world had its second major ransomware attack in two months, and experts are predicting more to come. The first, named WannaCry, began May 12, and quickly spread to over 400,000 machines, the vast...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

WannaCry Ransomware Alert

This is not a drill. Companies and law enforcement agencies around the world have been left scrambling after the world’s most prolific ransomware attack hit over 500,000 computers in 150 countries over a span of only 4...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

DocuSign Breach a Strong Reminder for the Mortgage Industry to Manage Third-Party Service Provider Risks

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On May 16, DocuSign confirmed that a data breach resulted in widespread malware phishing attacks targeting its customers. DocuSign provides electronic signature solutions for many companies in the mortgage banking industry...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

What Did They Say About Cybersecurity in 2016? 8 Proclamations from Regulators and the Courts

There is no such thing as compliance with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (FTC). In September, the FTC dispelled a commonly held misconception regarding the NIST Framework: It “is not, and isn’t intended to be, a standard or...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Most Frequently Hacked Industries Now Includes Manufacturing

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Second only to health care, the manufacturing industry is now one of the most frequently hacked industries (according to IBM’s 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index). And more importantly, automotive manufacturing was the...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Information Security and Privacy Group News: Cybersecurity Conference Essential Take-Aways Government, Industry and Legal...

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Representatives of Connecticut businesses and corporations, educational institutions, and state and local government attended Murtha Cullina’s March 2016 Cybersecurity Conference at the Quinnipiac University School of Law....more

Porter Hedges LLP

Business Litigation Alert: "Will There Be a Jump in Cyber Attacks in 2016? Survey Says... Yes"

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Last year, we saw some major cyber breaches affect millions of Americans (remember the June 2015 hack of the federal Office of Personal Management that impacted over 20 million Americans?). Unfortunately, cyber-attacks do not...more

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