But today is not that day. Geico data breach exposed customers' driver's license numbers
Driver's license numbers can be used in a lot of ways. In this case Geico thinks the bad guys will apply for unemployment benefits in the names of people who had their data stolen. That is something like 17 million people, or more. They insure 28 million vehicles.
So why do I say they were not taking security seriously?
Once they learned of the abuse, Geico says they secured the website and added additional safeguards to prevent further fraud or illegal activities.
Why were those "additional safeguards" not in place to begin with? Because you IT folks always want to spend money on something, and besides, what's the worst that could happen?
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