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

[douglas9]

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.”

The insurance giant did not say how many customers were affected by the breach but said the fraudsters accessed customer driver’s license numbers between January 21 and March 1. Companies are required to alert the state’s attorney general’s office when more than 500 state residents are affected by a security incident.

Geico said it had “reason to believe that this information could be used to fraudulently apply for unemployment benefits in your name.”



https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/geico-driver-license-numbers-scraped/

[abqtommy]

1. I had a very unsatisfactory experience getting an online quote from Geico a few years

ago. (This was for auto insurance.) The initial quote was quite satisfactory but they said they were investigating me and never updated that figure. When I finally went to their checkout page and found out what they planned to charge me I sent them an email accusing them of bait and switch tactics and they just couldn't understand what I meant. I'm very happy with the coverage I finally settled on with another company and continue
to consider Geico an unethical company.

[Demovictory9]

2. when did auto insurance before the more played commercials?. Geico, progressive, Liberty, The Genera

Jake from State farm.

I feel they have surpassed auto commercials as dominating national commerical market.

[fescuerescue]

4. It's basically the only way they compete

Insurance is a boring product and they know these things are what determines who buys from them (in this order)

1) How familiar the customer is with the insurance company. (advertising)
2) Premium charged
3) Deductible.

Now there are about 1,000,000 other ways to rate an insurance company, but consumers basically use items #1-3. (But most #1 and #2)

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Greeeaaat.

I haven't received any notification about it, so maybe I wasn't affected?

It was the least expensive auto insurance in my area a few years ago when I chose them, but I haven't comparison-shopped in the meantime.

I have $500.000 of liability with them, among other coverage, and it's still cheaper than State Farm for me a few years ago with less coverage.