This weeks Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast covers the Anthem hack, the probable Chinese role in it, the possibility of information sharing actually passing and much more.
An additional flurry of cybersecurity activity came from the White House at the end of last week. On Friday, February 13, the President hosted a cybersecurity summit at Stanford University…
Earlier in the month the Senate Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security brought in a range of experts to give testimony on how to best
Class action lawsuits have begun to spring up across the country in response to the Anthem data breach. Individuals in California, Alabama, Indiana, Georgia, California [again], and California [again] have filed
Following the Anthem breach “New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that it will integrate regular, targeted assessments of cyber security preparedness at insurance companies as part of the
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Connecticut Attorney General, George Jepsen wrote a letter to Anthem CEO Joseph Swedish on behalf of the AG’s of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.
New York State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky is “very likely” to levy new cyber-security rules on the banking and insurance industries following such high profile breaches at JP Morgan
Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin recently stated that she is worried by the slow cyber insurance take up rate of smaller companies (bellow $1 billion in revenue). Raskin stated
The NAIC is telling consumers to be extra vigilant when protecting their identity following the Anthem data breach. According to NAIC President Monica J. Lindeen, “regulators from states affected by the breach are meeting
