- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2023-06-28T13:18:00
The Australian Prudential and Regulation Authority (APRA) will require Medibank Private to hold 250 million Australian dollars (U.S. $166 million) in extra capital until the insurer remediates identified cybersecurity weaknesses after a significant data breach.
The action by APRA, announced Tuesday, follows a cyber incident last year in which 9.7 million past and present Medibank customers had their data stolen by a hacker. The data exposed included first and last names, addresses, dates of birth, Medicare numbers, policy numbers, phone numbers, and some claims data.
The incident was one of the most significant data breaches ever experienced in Australia, said APRA, the country’s prudential regulator of the financial services industry.
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2023-06-22T21:15:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Compliance teams are taking more responsibility for issues related to information security and data privacy, motivated by increasing threats posed by data breaches and cyber intrusions, according to a new survey from NAVEX.
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