Lemonade Hit With Class Suit Over Driver’s License Number Leak

Lemonade Inc. violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act by knowingly obtaining, using, and disclosing driver’s license numbers and other personal information through its online insurance quote platform, a class action filed in federal court claims.

Leslie Linwood Rich says that Lemonade intentionally designed its website to automatically display driver’s license numbers to anyone who entered basic personal information like a name and address, without verifying the person had permission to access that data.

This allowed cybercriminals to harvest approximately 190,000 individuals’ driver’s license numbers from Lemonade’s systems, the suit, filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District ...