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When Your Data Goes Viral: Insurance for Data Breaches

This article explains the traditional insurance products that may provide a policyholder with insurance coverage for data breaches, and some of the newer products available to policyholders for these risks.

40 minute read December 31, 2014 at 11:00 PM
By
Sherilyn Pastor And Kelly Lloyd
When Your Data Goes Viral: Insurance for Data Breaches

Data breaches are part of the technological age. Indeed, 2013 was dubbed the year of the “mega breach,” and in 2014, as of Sept. 23, 2014, there had been 568 publicly reported data breaches, exposing 75,097,642 records.

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