BEC overtakes ransomware and data breaches in cyber-insurance claims

BEC overtakes ransomware and data breaches in cyber-insurance claims

Source: ZDNet
By: Catalin Cimpanu
Published: September 2, 2019

* Business email compromise (BEC) has overtaken ransomware and data breaches as the main reason companies filed a cyber-insurance claim in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Asia) region last year, said insurance giant AIG.
* Ransomware-related incidents came in in second place, accounting for 18% of all cyber-insurance claims in the EMEA region, followed by claims for data breaches caused by hackers and data breaches caused by employee negligence (e.g. sending data to the wrong person), both with 14%.