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NY Attorney General sues insurance companies following cyberattacks

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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The New York State Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against National General and Allstate Insurance Company after they failed to protect New Yorkers' personal information from cyberattacks, the Attorney General's Office announced on Monday. More than 165,000 New Yorkers were allegedly impacted by cyberattacks that hit the companies and its subsidiaries in 2020 and 2021. Get the latest news, weather, sports and en…

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New York sues Allstate and subsidiaries for back-to-back data breaches

Allstate and several of the insurance company’s subsidiaries were accused of poor security practices resulting in data breaches in 2020 and 2021 that exposed sensitive data on nearly 200,000 people, the New York State Attorney General office said in a lawsuit filed Monday. National General, an insurance company Allstate acquired for $4 billion in 2021, failed to notify almost 12,000 people their driver’s license numbers were compromised in an a…

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cnyhomepage.com

NY Attorney General sues insurance companies following 2020 cyberattacks

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WTEN

NY Attorney General sues insurance companies following cyberattacks

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Allstate sued for exposing personal info in plaintext

: Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands

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PYMNTS.com

New York Sues Allstate and National General Over Data Breaches

Several insurance companies doing business as National General and Allstate are facing a lawsuit in which the New York State Attorney General alleges that they failed to protect the personal information of consumers. The Office of the Attorney General alleged in its lawsuit that National General failed to notify impacted consumers about a data breach in 2021, neglected to determine whether sensitive information was exposed elsewhere in its syste…

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Insurance Companies Sued for Failing to Secure Customers' Data - Long Island Life & Politics

Driver’s License Numbers Belonging to Over 165,000 New Yorkers Obtained by Hackers By Hank Russell New York Attorney General Letitia James today filed a lawsuit against several insurance companies doing business as National General and Allstate [...] The post Insurance Companies Sued for Failing to Secure Customers’ Data appeared first on Long Island Life & Politics.

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