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DougOlenick) • February 18, 2021 Get Permission
Hackers are targeting vulnerabilities in websites offering instant quotes - especially those that provide auto insurance rates - in an ongoing campaign designed to steal consumers information, according to an alert from the New York State Department of Financial Services .
The alert says hackers are targeting the sites to steal driver s license numbers and other personally identifiable information. The sites affected were not named.
The department first heard about the issue earlier this year and informed 12 auto insurance instant quote sites in January that they were likely targeted. Following that alert, six more insurers reported to DFS the malicious targeting of their auto quote websites, the state agency says. Two of those insurers reported that the attackers failed to gain access to NPI [nonpublic information] and four
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