A devastating cyber attack has brought down systems across the diverse operations of national brokerage Insurance House.
As insuranceNEWS.com.au reported yesterday, the incident created serious disruption at underwriting agency ProRisk, which is part of the broader Insurance House Group.
But it emerged today that all Insurance House’s other businesses, including its brokerage, authorised representative network, affinity business and life insurance business, have been affected.
The Melbourne-based group has a presence in 60 locations across Australia.
“ProRisk was most affected but I can confirm the cyber incident impacted the whole group,” Insurance House Group MD Jay Fereday told insuranceNEWS.com.au.
Concerns were raised in the early hours of Sunday after a “phishing” email, which contained a link, seeded malware onto the group’s systems.
“We shut down our system entirely to isolate and contain the problem,” Mr Fereday said.
“We were offline and non-contactable until late Tuesday. We have now brought back critical functions, but some disruption will continue.”
The response involved cleansing and restoring more than 400 computers across the group.
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