"With vulnerability to hacking in stark relief, insurance brokers say sales of cyberinsurance have picked up sharply this year. The interest is coming from a diverse mix of customers, including public schools in Ann Arbor, Mich., which in February acquired $1 million in cyberspecific coverage for the first time, from a unit of Zurich Insurance Group AG ZURN.VX -0.37% .
'You hear in the news of all those things happening, and we just wanted to make sure that our employees would be covered in case of a breach,' said Nancy Hoover, a school-district finance official. The district is adopting new human-resources and payroll software and was concerned its potential risk was increasing, she said. The policy's annual premium is $21,400, and it covers the cost of services to monitor credit-card accounts, among other potential expenses."
