On August 9, a coalition of 33 state Attorneys General announced a $5.5 million settlement with a major national insurance company and a subsidiary for a 2012 data breach that resulted in the loss of personal information belonging to more than 1.2 million Americans. The data breach was allegedly caused by the failure to apply a critical security patch, and lost data included Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, credit scoring information, and other personal data.
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