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Auto insurance companies GEICO and The Travelers Indemnity Co. agreed to pay a combined $11.3 million in state penalties for data-security breaches that resulted in a compromise of more than 120,000 New Yorkers’ personal information, multiple state agencies said on Monday.
GEICO—the Government Employees Insurance Company—will pay $9.75 million in penalties and Travelers will pay $1.55 million, said New York Attorney General Letitia James and Department of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris, whose offices joined the state Department of Labor in the multi-agency probe.
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Brian Lee
Brian Lee is an Albany-based litigation reporter for the New York Law Journal. He has worked at daily newspapers in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @bleereporter
