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Geico admits fraudsters stole customers’ driver’s license numbers for months

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports:

Geico, the second-largest auto insurer in the U.S., has fixed a security bug that let fraudsters steal customers’ driver’s license numbers from its website.

In a data breach notice filed with the California attorney general’s office, Geico said information gathered from other sources was used to “obtain unauthorized access to your driver’s license number through the online sales system on our website.”

Read more on TechCrunch.

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1 thought on “Geico admits fraudsters stole customers’ driver’s license numbers for months”

  1. Brian Plain says:
    April 20, 2021 at 7:12 am

    Well that’s unfortunate that they couldn’t protect auto insurance Customer’s personal data and information.

    Hopefully Warren Buffet will get on the case right away and deploy more money to protecting customers from databreaches.

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