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Company: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Current Parent Company: Nationwide
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Penalty: $5,500,000
Year: 2017
Date: August 9, 2017
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and its subsidiary, Allied Property & Casualty Insurance Company, agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle multistate litigation concerning an October 2012 data breach that the states alleged had been caused by the failure to apply a critical security patch.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Ohio
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: mutual
Major Industry of Current Parent: financial services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: insurance
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.