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In crosshairs of ransomware crooks, cyber insurers struggle

by Frank Bajak
| July 8, 2021 12:03 AM

BOSTON (AP) — In the past few weeks, ransomware criminals claimed as trophies at least three North American insurance brokerages that offer policies to help others survive the very network-paralyzing, data-pilfering extortion attacks they themselves apparently suffered.

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