Elephant Insurance Faces Revived Class Suit Over License Hack

Elephant Insurance Co. must fight revived class claims alleging it leaked customer data after a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the plaintiffs had standing to pursue damages after their driver’s license numbers were posted to the dark web.

The publication was sufficient to establish injury-in-fact on their public disclosure tort claims, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said in a ruling that deepened circuit splits on two separate issues.

The plaintiffs alleged that cybercriminals used Elephant’s tool for pulling driver’s license numbers to acquire the personally identifying information. Nearly three million consumers were affected by the ...