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Swiss Re Institute read the risk disclosures of 91 Fortune-100 companies. Ninety-eight percent of them name cyber attacks as a risk to their business. No risk in the study appeared more often. With the London School of Economics, it compared filings from 2019 and 2026. Cyber attacks topped the list in 2026, up from 91% … Read more
This essay originally appeared on “With Respect — Mostly,” Executive Editor Martin Hinton’s Substack, where he writes about a wide range of subjects, including cyber insurance and security. It has been adapted for Cyber Insurance News with additional reporting that ties it more directly to coverage we’ve done. Oh man. This was going to be … Read more
In June, a stream went live on IGN’s official Twitch channel. Nobody at IGN had started it. A self-identified white hat hacker had taken over a senior video director’s Restream account. He launched the broadcast himself. The account’s credentials had been sitting in an infostealer dump for more than a month before anyone used them. … Read more
One AI failure can reach several policies at once. CRC Specialty has put three of them on the same form. CRC Group’s exclusive Insurisk platform launched Insurisk Cyber on 22 September. The product combines cyber liability, technology errors and omissions, and miscellaneous professional liability in a single policy form. A- or better AM Best-rated paper … Read more
Private equity moves large sums on short notice. Much of that money still moves on the strength of an email. 6lock wants to change that. Now it has put an insurance policy behind the attempt. The Austin-based Verified Money Movement platform announced coverage of up to $1 million per occurrence for eligible transactions. The policy … Read more