When a breach occurs, cyber insurance covers the range of expenses that arise. These include identifying and solving the breach, recovering data, customer notifications, PR costs, possible credit monitoring expenses, legal expenses, potential fines from compliance regulators, extortion costs from ransomware, and general business interruption.
10. MEETMINDFUL
Online dating service had PII released on hacker site – stolen IP addresses, geographical info, email account details, and FB data.
9. ACCELLION
Music gear retailer had data released on dark web.
8. REVERB.COM
Document produced was hacked.
7. PIXLR
Web-based photo editing program had data hacked.
6. MIMECAST
File transfer service released fixes to patch weaknesses, but ransomware hackers got in first.
5. LINKEDIN
Professional social media site that had data scraped and shared online, for sale on RaidForums.
4. MICROSOFT
Software was hit by Chinese hacker and affected organizations including governments and federal agencies.
3. ANDROID
Software had cloud issues and data was compromised.
2. VOLKSWAGEN & AUDI
German automaker had PII stolen including DL #s and tax ID #s.
1. Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn
Data stolen usernames, mobile numbers, locations, and logins.