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title: "What Insurance Covers Business Data Loss?"
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# What Insurance Covers Business Data Loss?

Cyber insurance may pay to investigate and recover electronic data after a covered incident; some crime forms also cover narrowly defined restoration expenses.

Cyber insurance may pay to investigate and recover electronic data after a covered incident; some crime forms also cover narrowly defined restoration expenses. FTC guidance lists forensic investigation and recovery or replacement of lost or stolen data as possible cyber expenses. A sample crime form separately covers certain costs to restore programs or electronic data damaged by a defined computer violation, subject to conditions such as whether backups can reproduce the data.

Ask what causes of loss trigger recovery coverage: malicious encryption, accidental deletion, hardware failure, and vendor outages may receive different treatment. Confirm the covered recovery costs and whether backups affect eligibility.

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- [Cyber liability](https://spot.insure/coverage/cyber)
- [Commercial property](https://spot.insure/coverage/commercial-property)
- [Technology errors and omissions (E&O)](https://spot.insure/coverage/technology-errors-omissions)

## Sources

1. [Crime Terms and Conditions](https://asset.trvstatic.com/download/assets/cri-3001.pdf/98f30f1063c911eeb2f1deb19c93b21f). The Travelers Companies, Inc.; Insuring Agreements A.1 Employee Theft, A.3 Employee Theft of Client Property, B Forgery or Alteration, F Computer Fraud, G Funds Transfer Fraud, PDF pp.1–5; definitions E and AA, pp.7 and 10; exclusions IV.C–H, pp.14–15. Accessed 2026-09-25.
2. [Cyber Insurance](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/small-businesses/cybersecurity/cyber-insurance). Federal Trade Commission; First-Party Coverage; Third-Party Coverage; What Should Your Cyber Insurance Policy Cover. Accessed 2026-09-25.

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