Progressive Casualty Insurance Sued Over Years-Long Data Breach

Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. failed to protect the personal information of more than 347,000 people that was exposed in a breach that took place over a period of years, a proposed federal class action filed Tuesday said.

Kenneth Okonski alleged that employees of one of Progressive’s third-party service providers shared their Progressive access credentials with unauthorized people, who were then able to gain access to personal information of to the insurer’s customers.

The company failed to take necessary steps to protect class members’ information, and failed to supervise and monitor third parties it hired who had access to sensitive information, ...