The suit notes that the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) believed the attacks on National General to be part of a “systematic and aggressive campaign… to steal nonpublic information.” (Credit: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock)

The State of New York has filed suit against Allstate Insurance, claiming the online quoting system of one of its subsidiaries shared the personal data of thousands drivers to anyone who searched for it.

The suit was filed on March 10, by New York Attorney General Latitia James. It states that National General Insurance, which was acquired by Allstate in 2021, suffered back-to-back data breaches in 2020 and 2021 that exposed the driver's license numbers of nearly 200,000 consumers. Around 165,000 of these people were New Yorkers. The attackers in those breaches allegedly gained access to this information using the online quoting tools National General provided for both agents and consumers.

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