Insurance

ACE American Insurance Co. is suing to recover $500,000 it paid in ransomware damages for a staffing company, claiming cloud computing and cybersecurity firms contracted by its policyholder should instead be held responsible due to their alleged negligence. The insurer …

The US Justice Department accused a British teenager on Thursday of engaging in a yearslong spree of cyberattacks that targeted 47 American organizations and netted more than $100 million in ransom payments. Thalha Jubair, 19, from London, participated in a …

Last year, Fort Worth gained a new distinction as Texas’ fourth city with more than 1 million people. While other major Texas cities grew at a slower clip or struggled to regain residents it lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fort …

OpenAI patched a ChatGPT security flaw that could have allowed hackers to extract Gmail data from its users, according to researchers at cyber firm Radware. The issue was found in ChatGPT’s Deep Research agent, a tool launched in February to …

Natural gas cash prices in West Texas, which dipped below zero in recent days, sank to the lowest in almost 14 months, as traders expect pipeline maintenance in the area to stifle movement of the fuel for some time. Gas …

The Russian owner of a cargo ship linked to a cargo of ammonium nitrate at the center of the massive Beirut port explosion in 2020 has been arrested in Bulgaria, Lebanese judicial officials said Monday. The arrest of Igor Grechushkin …

After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline. The Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin …

ServiceNow Inc. is expanding to West Palm Beach, Florida, opening a location for several hundred employees in a planned office tower being developed by billionaire Stephen Ross, the famed New York real estate magnate who broke from Related Cos. last …

Not a single named storm has formed in the Atlantic Ocean in nearly three weeks, even though it’s the peak of hurricane season. “Where the heck are the Atlantic #hurricanes?” Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University, wrote recently …

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Monday requested $13.5 billion more from Congress in recovery aid for Hurricane Helene almost a year after the historic storm, saying additional help is needed from Washington to address record amounts of damage and …