Horizon Actuarial Services Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit Overview:
- Who: Justin Sherwood filed a class action lawsuit against Horizon Actuarial Services, LLC.
- Why: Sherwood claims Horizon failed to properly secure the personally identifiable information of its customers and associates during a November 2021 data breach.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Georgia federal court.
Consulting firm Horizon Actuarial Services failed to protect the personally identifiable information (PII) of its customers and associates during a November 2021 data breach, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Justin Sherwood claims Horizon not only failed to reasonably secure and monitor its customers’ and associates’ PII but also waited months to disclose that the data breach had even occurred.
Sherwood claims he did not receive a notice from Horizon that a data breach had occurred until more than five months after the incident, which he says exposed names, birthdates and Social Security numbers.
During this time, Sherwood argues he and other individuals who were affected by the data breach were unaware “their sensitive personal identifying information had been compromised.”
Sherwood claims he and others affected by the data breach now suffer from a “significant risk” of falling victim to identity theft or other types of “personal, social and financial harm.”
Horizon, meanwhile, is responsible for the data breach, Sherwood argues, due to committing “multiple acts of negligence” in safeguarding its customers and associates data.
Sherwood claims Horizon, among other things, failed to “design, implement and maintain reasonable and adequate data security systems and safeguards” and “exercise reasonable care in the hiring, supervision and training of its employees, agents and vendors.”
Horizon Did Not Obey ‘Industry-Standard Data Security Practices,” Class Action Alleges
Further, Sherwood argues Horizon failed to abide by both “industry-standard data security practices” and state and federal laws in place to help protect the type of PII exposed in the data breach.
“In this era of frequent data security attacks and data breaches, particularly in the financial industry, Defendant’s failures leading to the Data Breach are particularly egregious, as this Data Breach was highly foreseeable,” the Horizon class action states.
Sherwood claims Horizon is guilty of negligence and negligence per se and is in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act. He wants to represent a nationwide class of consumers whose PII was hosted by Horizon and was compromised in the data breach.
Plaintiff is demanding a jury trial and requesting injunctive and declaratory relief along with damages and an order of restitution for himself and all class members.
Earlier this month, Zywave Inc. and Insurance Technologies Corp. agreed to pay a combined $11 million to resolve claims related to a 2021 data breach.
Was your PII exposed during the November 2021 Horizon data breach? Let us know in the comments!
The plaintiff is represented by MaryBeth V. Gibson and N. Nickolas Jackson of The Finley Firm, P.C., and Terence R. Coates of Markovits, Stock & DeMarco, LLC.
The Horizon Actuarial Services Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit is Sherwood v. Horizon Actuarial Services, LLC, Case No. 1:22-cv-01495, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
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