Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz

HELLFIRE

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/landmark_admin_data_loss/ – 800K? Make that double, and we’ll need a double, too, for the pain

A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it than previously disclosed. Landmark Admin in October revealed more than 800,000 people had their data pilfered from its servers by a network intruder. That stolen data included customers’ first and last names, addresses, Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers, driver’s license numbers and state-issued identification cards, passport numbers, financial account numbers, medical information, dates of birth, health insurance policy numbers, and life and annuity policy information. No credit card details were pinched, though the trove included everything else a phisher or identity thief would kill for. And in a filing last week, Landmark informed Maine state regulators that the number of affected people is actually 1,613,773. …

Regards

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But that’s a rounding error compared to the National Public Data (NPD) breach of 2023-2024. 🙂

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Right now, Landmark is offering anyone affected by this intrusion 12 months of credit monitoring, a $1 million insurance reimbursement policy if they can prove harm, and managed ID theft recovery services.

So after my identity and assets are violated by a bad guy I got to prove to Landmark (beyond a shadow of doubt?) I was harmed by a breach of their system before they pay any attention to me?