January 28, 2019
Officials in Delaware say a data breach at a third-party administrator for health insurance companies has affected five companies and 650 consumers. The Department of Insurance announced Thursday that BenefitMall’s Oct. 11 breach has affected five companies in Delaware and …
December 28, 2018
BevMo is warning that a data breach may have allowed a hacker to steal credit card numbers and other information from more than 14,000 customers who used the alcohol-seller’s website. The Concord, Calif.-based company has notified the California attorney general’s …
December 10, 2018
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that an employer has a legal duty to use reasonable care in safeguarding its employees’ sensitive personal information stored on an internet-accessible computer. This vacates earlier Trial Court and Superior Court decisions in the …
November 30, 2018
Marriott International said on Friday hackers stole about 500 million records from its Starwood Hotels reservation system in an attack that began four years ago, exposing personal data of customers including some payment card numbers. Shares of the company were …
October 11, 2018
Ant Financial’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings Ltd. warned that cyber attackers employed stolen Apple IDs to break into customers’ accounts and made off with an unknown amount of cash, in a rare security breach for China’s top digital payments providers. …
October 10, 2018
It has been more than a year and a half since the New York Department of Financial Services cybersecurity regulations (cyber rules) came into effect, and yet another compliance deadline has passed. Broadly, “covered entities,” which means you if you …
October 2, 2018
For users, Facebook’s revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next? For the owners of the affected accounts, and of another 40 million that Facebook considered at risk, …
September 21, 2018
Most states have yet to adopt a cyber security model law for the insurance industry like the one approved by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in 2017, but one expert believes the industry should be prepared for what he …
July 3, 2018
California is on track to have what will be the nation’s most far-reaching law to give consumers more control over their personal data. The new law may be both a big concern, as well as a new and important opportunity, …
July 2, 2018
California will soon have what experts call the nation’s most far-reaching law to give consumers more control over their personal data under a bill the governor has signed. The law will compel companies to tell customers upon request what personal …