Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
People Moves: AXIS Taps SCOR’s Dejung as Global Cyber & Technology CUO; SiriusPoint Names 3 Key Leaders in Global Underwriting
Mar 5 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings and SiriusPoint. A summary of these new hires follows here. AXIS appoints Dejung as Global Cyber & Technology...
People Moves: Lockton Re Taps Lewis From Zurich to Lead Cyber Practice in N. America; Sedgwick Names Liberty Mutual’s Fink as Chief Marketing Officer
Mar 5 2024 // Lockton Re Taps Lewis From Zurich to Lead Cyber Practice in North America Brian Lewis Lockton Re, the reinsurance business of independent insurance broker Lockton, announced that Brian Lewis has joined as senior broker...
Physician Group Asks US to Make Funds Available to Doctors Hurt by Change Hack
Mar 5 2024 // Influential U.S. doctors’ group the American Medical Association (AMA) on Monday asked the Biden Administration to make emergency funds available to physicians hurt by ongoing problems created by the hack of...
Georgia’s Largest County Still Repairing Damage from January Cyberattack
Mar 4 2024 // Georgia’s largest county is still repairing damage inflicted on its government a month ago by hackers who shut down office phone lines, left clerks unable to issue vehicle registrations or marriage licenses and...
Small Business Cyber Gap
Mar 4 2024 // Yvette Prichard says cyber insurance continues to be an area where small businesses have significant gaps in their insurance portfolios. “It is a big risk; any business that does anything on a computer needs cyber...
Kansas’ Conrade Insurance Group Discloses Data Breach
Mar 1 2024 // Conrade Insurance Group this week reported a data breach upon identifying unusual activity in its email system. The Newton, Kansas-based insurance agency posted a Notice of data Event on its website stating an...
Taiwan Military Says Hackers Sold Telecom Giant’s Data on Web
Mar 1 2024 // Taiwan’s military said hackers sold data stolen from the island’s biggest telecom company on the internet, the latest challenge to the democratically run island’s cybersecurity. The leaked documents that...
UnitedHealth Says ‘Blackcat’ Group Behind Recent Hack
Mar 1 2024 // UnitedHealth Group said on Thursday the recent cyberattack at its tech unit, Change Healthcare, was perpetrated by hackers who identified themselves as the “Blackcat” ransomware group. The statement confirms a...
RT Specialty Adds Cyber Liability to its Proprietary Digital Platform
Feb 29 2024 // RT Specialty, the wholesale distribution division of Ryan Specialty (NYSE: RYAN), a leading international specialty insurance firm, announced addition of Cyber Liability to its proprietary digital platform, RT...
People Moves: Fusion Specialty Appoints Harwood for APAC M&A Team; Specialty MGA Nirvana Hires García-Beltrán to Grow European Cyber SME Portfolio
Feb 29 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the managing general agents Fusion Specialty and Nirvana. A summary of these new hires follows here. Fusion Specialty Appoints Harwood for M&A in Asia...
UnitedHealth Hackers Say They Stole ‘Millions’ of Records, Then Delete Statement
Feb 29 2024 // In a message posted to, and then quickly deleted from their darknet site, the hackers blamed for striking the UnitedHealth Group said on Wednesday they stole millions of sensitive records, including medical insurance and...
Change Healthcare Cyberattack Is Still Disrupting Pharmacies, Other Providers
Feb 28 2024 // A cyberattack that has disrupted Change Healthcare’s computer networks for nearly a week is creating a growing administrative problem for pharmacies and health-care providers around the nation. Change Healthcare, a...
OpenAI Says New York Times ‘Hacked’ ChatGPT to Build Copyright Lawsuit
Feb 28 2024 // OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence systems to...
People Moves: Ardonagh’s Price Forbes Taps Horler From Lockton as Deputy CEO; Marsh Names Fort From McGill and Partners as Int’l Cyber Product Leader
Feb 27 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the brokers Price Forbes and Marsh. A summary of these new hires follows here. Ardonagh’s Price Forbes Taps Horler From Lockton as Deputy CEO Sarah...
MGM Resorts Says Regulators Probing September Cyberattack
Feb 27 2024 // MGM Resorts International disclosed that state and federal regulators were probing a cyberattack on its systems that took place in September and caused a $100 million hit to the company’s third-quarter results. The...
US Pharmacy Outage Triggered by ‘Blackcat’ Ransomware at UnitedHealth Unit: Sources
Feb 26 2024 // Hackers working for the ‘Blackcat’ ransomware gang are behind the outage at UnitedHealth’s technology unit that has snarled prescription deliveries for six days, two people familiar with the matter told...
UnitedHealth Blamed ‘Nation-State’ Threat in Hack That Disrupted Pharmacy Orders
Feb 23 2024 // A cyberattack against a division of UnitedHealth Group Inc. has caused a nationwide outage of a computer network that’s used to transmit data between health-care providers and insurance companies, rendering some...
Cyber MGA Coalition Predicts Common Vulnerabilities to Increase 25% in 2024
Feb 22 2024 // Cyber insurance provider Coalition said it expects the total number of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) to increase by 25% in 2024 to 34,888 vulnerabilities, or roughly 2,900 per month. The insurtech’s...
Russia’s LockBit Disrupted But Not Dead, Hacking Experts Warn
Feb 22 2024 // Two arrests. Twenty-eight servers seized. And 1,000 decryption keys obtained that can help hacking victims worldwide get their data back. The takedown announced Tuesday of the Russia-linked hacking gang LockBit, which by...
Beazley Creates Cyber Risk Management Company
Feb 21 2024 // Beazley, the London-based specialty insurer, announced the creation of an integrated cyber risk management company, Beazley Security, formed from the merger of its in-house Cyber Services team and its wholly owned cyber...
