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Ethos Technologies, Inc. Data Breach

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NOTICE: If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH letter from Ethos Technologies, Inc., contact the Arnold Law Firm at 916-777-7777 to discuss your legal options, or submit a confidential Case Evaluation form here.
Ethos data breach On or about December 21, 2022, Ethos Technologies, Inc. (“Ethos”) sent a Notice of Data Breach Letter (“Breach Letter”) to its customers, informing them that their personally identifiable information (“PII”) including Social Security numbers (“SNNs”) was exposed through “unauthorized actors” who “launched a sophisticated and successful cyberattack…to access certain persons’ SSNs” (“data breach”). According to the Breach Letter, hackers had access to Ethos’s systems between August 4, 2022 and December 9, 2022. The PII stolen by the hackers included, but may not have been limited to Social Security numbers. Although Ethos states it learned of the data breach on December 8, 2022, hackers had access to its servers, including a “third-party integrated service” that provided sensitive PII to the hackers, for over four months. In the Breach Letter regarding Ethos’s forensic review, it informed victims that this was a targeted attack where the hackers had other information such as names, dates of birth and addresses and used that information to acquire the victims’ SSNs from Ethos and its “third-party integrated service.” This means that you are at a heightened risk as the hackers specifically targeted you in order to acquire your SSN from Ethos. Ethos is a life insurance company and insurance services company headquartered at 460 Bryant Street, Fl. 3, San Francisco, California. Ethos provides life insurance policies with benefits amounts between $1,000 and $2,000,000. If you received a Breach Letter from Ethos, you were impacted by the data breach. Contact us now! For this breach, Ethos has offered data breach victims 24 months of Experian Identity Works credit and identity monitoring, but the deadline for victims to enroll may be a short window.

WHAT INFORMATION IS INVOLVED?

According to Ethos, the following information was exposed:
  • Social Security numbers
This information is called your Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”). It tells others about you and is considered part of your identity. Businesses are required to secure this information or risk facing statutory penalties, among other legal penalties. Stolen PII can be used by identity thieves to engage in fraudulent activity using your identity. The best way to protect yourself after a data breach is to sign up for credit and identity protection services as soon as possible. California offers extra protections and legal rights to its residents through the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).

NOTICE: If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH letter from Ethos contact the Arnold Law Firm at 916-777-7777 to discuss your legal options, or submit a confidential Case Evaluation form here.

Settlement - $3,767,000

Truck Accident

A 20-year-old man who had been married for just 12 days left home on his way to work. He was driving on Pleasant Grove Road in Sutter County in the early morning when he came upon a slow-moving truck. As he pulled out to pass the truck, the truck driver turned left in front of him. The young man attempted to steer back into his lane but his vehicle struck an un-flagged piece of metal extending from the back of the truck. He died in the resulting crash.

Expert witnesses brought in by the Arnold Law Firm proved that the truck, owned and operated by a hauling firm, should never have been on the highway that morning. Specifically, the rear and side turn signals did not work and the rear-view mirror was in a poor state of adjustment at the time of the collision. As a result, the driver, who had failed to properly inspect the vehicle before setting out that morning, couldn’t see the young man’s vehicle as it attempted to pass.

The poor condition of the truck, its lack of maintenance and the manner in which it was operated were found to be substantial factors in causing the collision that killed the young man. The testimony also established that the man had been making a lawful pass at the lawful speed limit and acted reasonably when he attempted to avoid the collision.

The man’s 20-year-old widow was awarded $3,767,000.77, his parents were awarded $185,131 and the family was reimbursed $11,899 in funeral expenses. Though money is a poor substitute for a young man’s life, this verdict demonstrates that drivers who endanger the lives of others will be held accountable for their actions.