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National General, an insurance company Allstate acquired for $4 billion in 2021, failed to notify almost 12,000 people their driver’s license numbers were compromised. (Getty Images)

New York sues Allstate and subsidiaries for back-to-back data breaches

A pair of data breaches in late 2020 and early 2021 exposed driver’s license numbers of almost 200,000 people.

Mar 11, 2025 By Matt Kapko

Deadline passes for companies to comply with New York’s cybersecurity regulation

The New York State Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation goes into full effect Friday.

Mar 1, 2019 By Jeff Stone

New York’s banks are preparing for the state’s new cybersecurity laws to go into effect. (Pexels)

Banks preparing for heightened New York cybersecurity laws to take effect

This week, senior executives from more than 3,000 banks, insurers and other financial services companies doing business in New York will have to personally certify that their…

Feb 15, 2018 By Shaun Waterman