United States:
33 State Attorneys General Settle Data Breach With Major Insurance Company
21 September 2017
by
Daniel J. McLoon
,
Mauricio Paez
,
Richard Johnson
,
Jonathon Little
,
Kevin Lyles
,
Todd McClelland
,
Jeff Rabkin
,
Lisa M. Ropple
,
Adam Salter
,
Michiru Takahashi
,
Undine Von Diemar
,
Olivier Haas
,
Jörg Hladjk
and
Anand Varadarajan
Jones Day
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On August 9, a coalition of 33 state Attorneys General announced
a $5.5 million settlement with a major national insurance company
and a subsidiary for a 2012 data breach that resulted in the loss
of personal information belonging to more than 1.2 million
Americans. The data breach was allegedly caused by the failure to
apply a critical security patch, and lost data included Social
Security numbers, driver's license numbers, credit scoring
information, and other personal data.
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