Migliaccio & Rathod LLP is involved in the Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage, Inc. (“Starkweather”) data breach investigation, for a data breach that affected an unknown individuals and their personal information.
Starkweather discovered suspicious activity involving an email address on its system and launched an investigation sometime this year to determine the nature and scope of the breach. The investigation determined that an unauthorized third party accessed Starkweather’s records between February 29, 2024, and April 11, 2024, and may have acquired certain information contained in the account. Affected consumers were not notified of the Starkweather data breach until late October of 2024. Starkweather discovered that hackers were able to compromise a significant amount of personal information. The compromised information potentially includes a variety of highly sensitive details including:
- Name,
- Social Security number
The Starkweather Data Breach Investigation
Starkweather informed the New Hampshire State Attorney General’s office of the breach, where a copy of the consumer notification letter can be found. All of the information stolen is likely valuable and dangerous to affected victims. As is likely to be the case with the Starkweather data breach, in previous data breaches, victims of data theft have noticed identity theft attempts ranging from fraudulent charges on bank accounts or credit cards, to unauthorized credit card applications, to medical services or government services ordered in their name, to their information being posted on the dark web, to a massive uptick in the number of spam text messages, calls and emails received.
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The lawyers at Migliaccio & Rathod LLP have years of experience in class action litigation against large corporations, including in cases involving data breaches such as this. More information about our current cases and investigations is available on our blog.