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Allstate sued for ‘back-to-back’ data breaches.
In a lawsuit filed this week, NY Attorney General Letitia James accused Allstate’s subsidiary, National General, of storing customers’ driver’s license numbers in plain text, leading to a 2020 breach that exposed the information of more than 12,000 people.
Following this incident, James alleges National General “continued to leave driver’s license numbers exposed” on a separate website, which allowed hackers to get ahold of the personal information of more than 187,000 customers the following year. She also claims National General failed to properly notify affected customers.
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