by Kelli Young | Jan 10, 2022 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In October 2016, Dyn—a domain name system (DNS) provider for many well-known internet platforms—was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The Mirai DDoS Attack on Dyn was one of several major DDoS attacks in 2016 that stemmed from the Mirai...
by Kelli Young | Dec 6, 2021 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In October 2020, the University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network—a six-hospital health care organization that serves over 1 million patients throughout Vermont and upstate New York—discovered that its systems had been compromised by cybercriminals in a ransomware...
by Kelli Young | Nov 8, 2021 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In the final months of 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)—a well-known entertainment company responsible for producing and distributing a myriad of famous movies—experienced a large-scale cyber incident. A foreign hacking group infiltrated SPE’s network via...
by Kelli Young | Oct 18, 2021 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In the final month of 2020, it was revealed that foreign hackers had orchestrated a supply chain cyberattack throughout the past year in an effort to compromise several federal agencies and private organizations. The cybercriminals first infiltrated the digital...
by Kelli Young | Oct 11, 2021 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In the final months of 2018, Marriott International—a hospitality company that oversees one of the biggest hotel chains in the world—discovered that cybercriminals had compromised its guest reservation system. This Marriott data breach exposed the personal information...
by Kelli Young | Sep 27, 2021 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In late 2014, Anthem—a well-known health insurance company that provides coverage to more than 100 million Americans—suffered a large-scale data breach. Foreign cyber-criminals leveraged malicious email tactics to access Anthem’s computer systems and subsequently...
