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#1 Erie Insurance Facing 2 Class Actions Claiming Data Breach
Jun 17 2025 // Not one but two class action lawsuits have been filed against Erie Insurance even as the insurer continues to investigate its cybersecurity incident. One lawsuit was filed by an Illinois customer, Neil Plascencia; the...
#2 Insurance Sector Should Be on the Lookout for ‘Scattered Spider’ Hackers
Jun 23 2025 // Watch out, insurance industry. A well-known cybercrime group appears to have shifted focus to insurers. Apparently, recent cybersecurity incidents at Erie Insurance, Philadelphia Insurance Cos., and most recently Aflac are...
#3 Erie Insurance: ‘No Evidence’ of Ransomware in Network Outage
Jun 18 2025 // Erie Insurance said it has “seen no evidence of ransomware and there is no indication of ongoing threat actor activity” in a June 17 update on its 10-day long network outage. That statement would appear to...
#4 Aflac Hit With Class Action Over Data Breach of Customer Info
Jun 25 2025 // An Alabama law firm wasted little time in filing a proposed class-action lawsuit against Aflac Inc., claiming the supplemental insurance giant knew the risks of a cyberattack and failed to protect policyholders’...
#5 Agents Must Take the Lead on Personal Cyber Coverage, Report Says
Jun 5 2025 // While major corporate cyber hacking makes the news nearly every day, what about hackers in homes? As personal lives and residences become more intertwined with the internet, consumers are at greater risk of personal...
#6 AT&T’s $177M Data Breach Settlement Wins US Court Approval
Jun 23 2025 // A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to a $177-million settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T over breaches in 2024 that exposed personal information belonging to tens of millions of the telecom...
#7 Chinese Hackers, User Lapses Turn Smartphones Into a ‘Mobile Security Crisis’
Jun 9 2025 // Cybersecurity investigators noticed a highly unusual software crash — it was affecting a small number of smartphones belonging to people who worked in government, politics, tech and journalism. The crashes, which began...
#8 Insurer Aflac Investigating Possible Data Breach
Jun 20 2025 // Health and life insurer Aflac on Friday said it is investigating a breach on its U.S. network that may have exposed customers’ personal information, making it the latest insurance provider to be targeted in a...
#9 Krispy Kreme Starts Notifying Over 160,000 People Affected by Data Breach
Jun 19 2025 // Krispy Kreme released new information about its late 2024 data breach and said it is notifying affected individuals—many of them current or former employees, and their families. According to a post on its website and a...
#10 Whole Foods Supplier Hack Leaves Empty Shelves, Stalls Forklifts
Jun 11 2025 // United Natural Foods Inc., a grocery distributor for Amazon Inc.’s Whole Foods Market, is working to bring systems back online by June 15 and resume product deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted its operations,...
#11 Hackers Abuse Modified Salesforce App to Steal Data, Extort Companies, Google Says
Jun 5 2025 // Hackers are tricking employees at companies in Europe and the Americas into installing a modified version of a Salesforce-related app, allowing the hackers to steal reams of data, gain access to other corporate cloud...
#12 Tackling Cyber Risks: The Vital Role of Brokers in Third-Party Data Protection
Jun 16 2025 // Last year’s global IT outage due to CrowdStrike’s faulty update disrupted hundreds of businesses and essential services across multiple countries, pointedly illustrating a growing threat to organizations...
#13 Whole Foods Supplier United Natural Foods Says Cyber Incident Disrupted Operations
Jun 10 2025 // United Natural Foods Inc., one of the largest U.S. grocery distributors whose clients include Whole Foods, took certain systems offline in recent days after the discovery of unauthorized activity on internal networks, the...
#14 UK Risk Managers Identify ‘Tech, AI and Cyber’ as Top Concern in AIRMIC Survey
Jun 12 2025 // UK risk managers identified five key themes that could affect their businesses, topped by “technology, AI and cyber,” according to AIRMIC, the British risk management group, which conducted a survey of its...
#15 Cyber Incidents in Canada Triple in 2 Years: QBE Research
Jun 6 2025 // Significant cyber incidents have tripled in two years in Canada, driven by technological, socioeconomic and geopolitical factors such as the war in Ukraine, according to research from commercial insurer QBE. Disruptive,...
#16 Chinese Hacked US Telecom a Year Before Known Wireless Breaches
Jun 5 2025 // Corporate investigators found evidence that Chinese hackers broke into an American telecommunications company in the summer of 2023, indicating the country’s attackers penetrated the US communications system earlier...
#17 Viewpoint: Cyber Is a Product for Everyone, so Let’s Start Acting Like it
Jun 26 2025 // If this latest wave of retail cyberattacks proves anything, it’s that any business in any sector and of any size can find itself breached. These aren’t fringe incidents anymore; they’re national news,...
#18 Texas Department of Transportation Data Breach Exposes 300K Crash Records
Jun 17 2025 // The Texas Department of Transportation said a compromise of an account led to a data breach of a large number of crash records. On May 12, TxDOT identified unusual activity in its Crash Records Information System (CRIS)...
#19 Washington Post Probes Hack of Journalist Email Accounts
Jun 16 2025 // The Washington Post is investigating a cyberattack on the email accounts of some journalists, prompting the newspaper to beef up its online security. The intrusion was discovered late Thursday and the company carried out a...
#20 Viasat Identified as Victim in Sweeping Phone Hack Tied to China
Jun 18 2025 // Viasat Inc. is the latest US communications company identified as a victim of the sweeping surveillance hack blamed on the Chinese government that emerged during last year’s presidential campaign, according to people...
