NY Financial Regulator Warns of Cyber Campaign for Consumer Data

New York’s financial regulator warned of a widespread cybercrime campaign to steal information from consumers that appears to be part of what it called “a growing fraud” targeting pandemic and unemployment benefits.

The state’s Department of Financial Services said in an alert Tuesday that it received reports from institutions it regulates of successful or attempted data theft from websites that provide instant quotes, such as auto insurance rates, using nonpublic information from consumers such as driver’s license numbers.

The department urged banks and other financial institutions with instant quote websites to review them immediately for evidence of hacking.

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