The University of California is suing a number of insurance firms for refusing to pay out on cyber policies nearly 10 years after hackers breached data on millions of patients at its health system. The university’s board of directors, known as the regents, filed suit in the Superior Court for the State of California against various syndicates operating through the Lloyd’s of London insurance marketplace, claiming the school should have been covered by policies purchased before the incident....

0:00 / 0:00 Play Fullscreen Download Mute Cast Captions Playback speed Listen to article Length (4 minutes) 00:00 / 04:02 1x Explore Audio Center This article is in your queue. Open Queue A radiology group in North Carolina is suing its insurance broker, alleging the company’s cyber policies were allowed to lapse just before a ransomware attack—and that it only found out when it tried to make a claim. Raleigh Radiology Associates filed a lawsuit in federal court on April 28, claiming that the...

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Equifax Inc. had spent years working to repair its reputation after a massive data breach when lockdown orders meant office workers around the world had to start working from home this spring. With most of its 11,000-plus employees scattered far from the company’s security team, the credit rating agency couldn’t afford a repeat of the painful 2017 breach, in which cybercriminals accessed Social Security numbers, addresses, drivers-license information and other details of about 150 million...

The first weeks of remote work at Millicom required creative measures to keep company operations running, he said, which included allowing staff to take company machines home where possible or using their own devices where it wasn’t. The security team had to work closely with the information-technology department to provide systems access for staff, he said, as they were also dealing with an influx of cyberattacks such as phishing emails. Verifying legitimate users can help security chiefs...