President Barack Obama signed an executive order allowing the use of economic sanctions against perpetrators of cyber-attacks and online corporate espionage.
Insurers doing business in N.Y. must tell a regulator there about efforts to prevent computer hacking, detailing the precautions taken and the personnel devoted to the task.
Insurance regulators in states including Washington and Alaska are launching an investigation into the cyberattack on health insurer Premera Blue Cross.
Two senior U.S. senators demanded Anthem pick up the pace in notifying as many as 79 million Americans that their personal information may have been stolen in a computer breach last month.
Premera Blue Cross, which sells health insurance in the northwestern U.S., said information on 11 million people may have been exposed in a cyberattack uncovered six weeks ago.
Privacy advocates have objected to a bill scheduled for a Senate committee vote on Thursday that would shield companies from lawsuits when they share information about cyber-attacks with each other and federal agencies.