Privacy Insurance

Here's an article by Toby Merrill of ACE USA on everything you need to know about privacy insurance.  He writes: 

Privacy, as it relates to an individual’s personally identifiable information, such as Social Security numbers, credit card and healthcare data, has become a cause célèbre of federal and state regulators. Increases in the scope of privacy laws continue to fuel a rise in publicly reported corporate data breach incidents. A company that suffers a significant data breach not only confronts the possibility of great financial loss, it may also suffer irreversible reputational damage—fueling a need for privacy insurance.