{"id":213838,"date":"2026-06-08T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213838\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:04:17","slug":"one-year-after-cyberattack-erie-insurance-reflects-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213838\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year After Cyberattack Erie Insurance Reflects | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was one year ago that Erie\u2019s largest employer, Erie Insurance, was hit with a cybersecurity attack that sent the Fortune 500 company into a proactive total network shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>It was a stunning moment that demonstrated that even a company in the risk business could be at risk from malicious cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"One Year After Cyberattack Erie Insurance Reflects\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>It appears that a group called \u201cScattered Spider\u201d was behind the attack. Erie Insurance credited their team and independent cybersecurity specialists with determining that no legally protected data was breached.<\/p>\n<p>The company was fully back online by July 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was one year ago that Erie\u2019s largest employer, Erie Insurance, was hit with a cybersecurity attack that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[17648,2962,136,138,1713,137,93633,93632],"class_list":["post-213838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-cyberattack","tag-cybersecurity","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-insurance","tag-erie-news","tag-network-shutdown","tag-scattered-spider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}