Cyber insurance for Paignton businesses
Paignton's hospitality and tourism businesses have embraced the QR code, on menus, tables and payment prompts, a quick tap for the customer. Criminals have embraced it too.
Where the risks come from for Paignton businesses
In 'quishing', attackers replace or fake the QR codes a business uses, sending customers to fraudulent sites that steal their details or payments in the business's name. A code on a table or a payment prompt carries the business's trust, and that trust is what the scam exploits.
A Paignton example
Fraudulent QR codes are placed at a Paignton hospitality business, sending customers to a fake payment site and harvesting their card details in the venue's name. Cyber cover supports the response, the customer communications and any liability, and helps the business restore trust in its own codes.
What cyber insurance covers
Cyber cover can support the response to QR-code and impersonation scams that exploit a business's brand, the investigation, customer notification and reputational management. As payment moves to codes and links, that exposure grows.
Placing it in Paignton with Apex
We make sure the cover reflects the newer scams that ride on a business's trust, QR codes among them. Apex works through one named broker and 30-plus markets. FCA authorised; established 2009.
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