{"id":13813,"date":"2024-02-26T11:16:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.policybee.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13813"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:41:48","slug":"cyber-insurance-for-marketing-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.policybee.co.uk\/blog\/cyber-insurance-for-marketing-agencies","title":{"rendered":"Cyber insurance for marketing agencies: case study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A marketing agency was asked by a small and exclusive hotel chain with a growing portfolio of properties to help launch its latest upmarket destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nice work if you can get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hotel and its luxury spa had been photographed from every possible flattering angle. A range of launch events had been scheduled and a lavish promotional email produced, to be sent to a select group of clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, so good. The email looked suitably glitzy and had been signed off by the client. Now to wow the public with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is when things went unexpectedly wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red alert<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The account manager responsible for creating the email had been working endless hours to get the campaign finished on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That meant he was feeling a bit sluggish when he opened his emails on Monday morning. Scrolling through, he noticed an alert from the company\u2019s email management platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seemed to be a security alert. The email asked him to reset the password for security reasons. He had a busy day ahead so didn\u2019t have the time for scrutiny. He clicked the button on the email and duly reset the account\u2019s password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or at least, he thought he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mere minutes later, another email arrived in his inbox. Again, it was from the email management platform. This time, though, it was warning him about an unauthorised sign-in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alarm bells began to ring in his head. He went back and checked the previous email alert. His stomach dropped as he realised he\u2019d fallen for a phishing email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phishing emails disguise themselves as authentic communications from companies or people that you know. They\u2019re easy to fall for but there are a few ways you can sniff them out<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data matters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oh dear. That\u2019s a mistake that screams \u2018data breach!\u2019 Now, the cybercriminals who sent the phishing email have access to marketing agency\u2019s entire database of marketing contacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the kind of thing that the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office<\/a> (ICO) takes a very dim view of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as well, then, that the marketing agency had cyber insurance in place to help limit the damage. Because they had to alert everyone in their email database of the breach. After which, complaint calls started flooding in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How cyber insurance for marketing agencies helped<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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