Data breaches

Landmark Admin announced a data breach affecting more than 800,000 Liberty Bankers Insurance Group policyholders.

Customers with deferred compensation plans at the bank had personally identifiable information compromised through a third party, Infosys McCamish.

Pan American Life Insurance found unauthorized third-parties took files that included personal information.

While ransomware group Alphv/Blackcat claims to have orchestrated the incident, title insurance company Fidelity National Financial has not yet stated whether confidential data was compromised.

Hacks of banks, credit unions and insurance companies compromised the data of millions of consumers, who filed a flurry of class actions in response.

Insurance organizations must identify where true exposure and business risk hide.

It's in insurers’ and insurtechs’ interest to ensure their mobile apps.

Delta Dental of Arizona is alerting some patients that their information may be at risk after it identified suspicious activity in an employee’s email account.

Democratic lawmakers and consumer advocates say the remedies offered to consumers by firms like Capital One and Equifax are too difficult to access and not particularly helpful.

Healthcare organizations must employ a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity, including robust vendor management strategies.

Five years after hackers accessed the personal information of 10.6 million individuals, parties to a consolidated class action lawsuit have reached one of the largest healthcare data breach settlements.

Last year was a significant one for health plans when it came to data breaches and breach settlements.

A Chinese citizen was indicted for aiding a massive 2015 computer hack at health insurer Anthem, one of the biggest thefts of consumer medical data in U.S. history.

Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service has had a data breach after an unauthorized user accessed the online provider portal with the intent of fraudulently rerouting a provider financial transaction.

Bridger Insurance says the incident, reported in Sept. 2018, involved some access of insurance application data.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reporting unauthorized access to consumer data in systems that support federal insurance exchanges.

The OCR has hit the health insurer with the fine as part of a settlement from its massive January 2015 breach.

Hackers accessed information systems at Toyota Industries North America, compromising personal and protected health information.

Log-in attempts continued on 2 sites for two days in early June and likely came from foreign sources.

Most organizations believe the addition of eye scans and other advanced authentication secure their data better than the use of passwords alone.