Federal Court Refuses to Slice Up CiCi’s Cyber Extortion Coverage
From the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog: In the rarely litigated space of cyber insurance, the Northern District of Texas issued
February 28, 2026
From the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog: In the rarely litigated space of cyber insurance, the Northern District of Texas issued
If a bill introduced in the Connecticut Senate ever becomes law, there will be new requirements for entities whose breaches
Insurance Business Magazine reports: Digital medicines platform MediMap is seeking urgent court orders in New Zealand after an individual claiming
Bank InfoSecurity has an update on the Norton Healthcare breach in 2023: Norton Healthcare, which operates nine hospitals and 480
The Record reports: A 47-year-old man was arrested in Poland for his alleged involvement with the Phobos ransomware operation. …
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The International Business Times reports: Discord is preparing to enforce a global age verification system from early March that will
From Polsinelli PC: In two separate but related actions, third party administrators (TPAs) and their insurance business partners agreed to
The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging the country’s military personnel to defect from the regime and join a fight to liberate the country, according to people familiar with the matter. The app, BadeSaba Calendar, is intended to help Muslims track prayer times and has wide reach within Iran. It has been downloaded over 5 million times from the Google Play app store alone.
India Today reports: A serious cybersecurity incident involving AI has put Mexico’s government networks under the spotlight, after hackers allegedly used an AI chatbot to pull off a large-scale data theft. According to a Bloomberg investigation, the attacker relied on Anthropic’s Claude AI to break into official systems, stealing close to 150GB of sensitive data that reportedly included taxpayer details, internal documents and employee login information. The breach began quietly in December and went on for several weeks before being
Insurance Business Magazine reports: Digital medicines platform MediMap is seeking urgent court orders in New Zealand after an individual claiming to be behind a cyber incident circulated what appears to be patient information to news organisations – an incident that is drawing attention to cyber risk, privacy exposure, and the role of cyber insurance across the health and aged-care sector. The incident, first identified on Feb. 22, has led MediMap to keep its system offline while it investigates how the
Dark Reading reports: In 2025, cybercriminals needed less time to move from break-in to lateral movement across a network than it takes to watch a typical sitcom. An analysis by CrowdStrike of threat activity last year found attackers took just 29 minutes on average to pivot to other systems after gaining an initial foothold in a victim environment, marking a 65% acceleration from the year before. The fastest “breakout” as CrowdStrike termed it, happened in a mere 27 seconds, while
Bleeping Computer reports: The ShinyHunters extortion gang has claimed responsibility for breaching Dutch telecommunications provider Odido and stealing millions of user records from its compromised systems. Odido is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the Netherlands and offers mobile, broadband, and television services to millions of customers nationwide. The company disclosed the breach on February 12, revealing that attackers downloaded the personal data of many of its users after gaining access to its customer contact system on February 7. However, Odido
The Register reports: South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto,
The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones
Bloomberg reports: A partial government shutdown threatens to further derail a key federal cybersecurity agency’s incident reporting rule—and delay answers
From the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog: In the rarely litigated space of cyber insurance, the Northern District of Texas issued
The Register reports: The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to
Freedom For All Americans recaps what is known so far about a Conduent Business Solutions data breach that could wind
The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging the country’s military personnel to defect from the regime and join a fight to liberate the country, according to people familiar with the matter. The app, BadeSaba Calendar, is intended to help Muslims track prayer times and has wide reach within Iran. It has been downloaded over 5 million times from the Google Play app store alone.
India Today reports: A serious cybersecurity incident involving AI has put Mexico’s government networks under the spotlight, after hackers allegedly used an AI chatbot to pull off a large-scale data theft. According to a Bloomberg investigation, the attacker relied on Anthropic’s Claude AI to break into official systems, stealing close to 150GB of sensitive data that reportedly included taxpayer details, internal documents and employee login information. The breach began quietly in December and went on for several weeks before being
Insurance Business Magazine reports: Digital medicines platform MediMap is seeking urgent court orders in New Zealand after an individual claiming to be behind a cyber incident circulated what appears to be patient information to news organisations – an incident that is drawing attention to cyber risk, privacy exposure, and the role of cyber insurance across the health and aged-care sector. The incident, first identified on Feb. 22, has led MediMap to keep its system offline while it investigates how the
Dark Reading reports: In 2025, cybercriminals needed less time to move from break-in to lateral movement across a network than it takes to watch a typical sitcom. An analysis by CrowdStrike of threat activity last year found attackers took just 29 minutes on average to pivot to other systems after gaining an initial foothold in a victim environment, marking a 65% acceleration from the year before. The fastest “breakout” as CrowdStrike termed it, happened in a mere 27 seconds, while
From the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog: In the rarely litigated space of cyber insurance, the Northern District of Texas issued
If a bill introduced in the Connecticut Senate ever becomes law, there will be new requirements for entities whose breaches
Insurance Business Magazine reports: Digital medicines platform MediMap is seeking urgent court orders in New Zealand after an individual claiming
Bank InfoSecurity has an update on the Norton Healthcare breach in 2023: Norton Healthcare, which operates nine hospitals and 480
The Record reports: A 47-year-old man was arrested in Poland for his alleged involvement with the Phobos ransomware operation. …
Miscellaneous News
The International Business Times reports: Discord is preparing to enforce a global age verification system from early March that will
From Polsinelli PC: In two separate but related actions, third party administrators (TPAs) and their insurance business partners agreed to
The Register reports: South Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto,
The Wall Street Journal reports: Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones
Bloomberg reports: A partial government shutdown threatens to further derail a key federal cybersecurity agency’s incident reporting rule—and delay answers
From the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog: In the rarely litigated space of cyber insurance, the Northern District of Texas issued
The Register reports: The number of successful cyber insurance claims made by UK organizations shot up last year, according to
Freedom For All Americans recaps what is known so far about a Conduent Business Solutions data breach that could wind
