Ameritas announces data breach exposing customers' info

guest · Jul 31, 2019

Ameritas announces data breach exposing customers' info
July 30, 2019
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Insurance and finance company Ameritas has notified customers that their personal information may have been exposed in a data breach.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the Lincoln-based company said in a letter dated July 23 that several of its employees fell victim to phishing scams in May and early June that tricked them into providing their email credentials. The company says it has taken action to address the exposure, including disabling the unauthorized access and deploying a mandatory company-wide password reset.

Information that may have been exposed includes names, home and email addresses, Social Security numbers and policy numbers.
An Ameritas spokeswoman says the company is not publicly disclosing how many people have been affected until final notification of regulatory authorities.
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Lincoln Journal Star: Lincoln-based Ameritas discloses data breach

guest · Aug 21, 2021

Lincoln-based Ameritas sued over 2019 data breach
August 20, 2021
https://journalstar.com/business/lo...cle_1762f3b9-bf87-58d5-af0e-c9f1a8071636.html

A North Carolina woman has sued Lincoln-based Ameritas in connection to a 2019 data breach that disclosed her personal information, along with at least 39,000 other customers.

Cynthia Weisenberger's attorney, Vince Powers, said in the past two years, she's experienced a "slew of harms."
She's lost $280 due to fraudulent activity on her Amazon account that wasn't refunded, her bank had to replace her credit cards four times due to fraudulent charges and two of her email accounts were compromised, he said.

She's also received targeted advertising for credit monitoring and spent money and time monitoring her accounts for misuse.
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Since the data breach, he said, there has been no assurance offered from Ameritas that all personal data has been recovered or destroyed.

Powers is asking that the case, filed this week in U.S. District Court, be allowed to go forward as a class-action lawsuit.
Ameritas hasn't yet responded to the lawsuit, and officials declined to comment when contacted Thursday.
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