Nationwide Mutual Insurance hit by cyberattack

One Nationwide Plaza in Columbus, Ohio / Nick Juhasz

COLUMBUS, Ohio Nationwide Mutual Insurance says someone attacked part of its computer network.

The Columbus, Ohio-based company says the Oct. 3 data breach occurred in a network also used by Allied Insurance. It has determined that the compromised information included names, birth dates and Social Security and driver's license numbers. Nationwide spokeswoman Liz Gianetti told Columbus Business First that the cyberattack affects about 1.1 million people.

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"This attack involves the information of some customers and other individuals who sought an insurance quote from Nationwide Insurance or Allied Insurance," Nationwide said in a statement on its website.

Nationwide is sending letters notifying those affected and is offering them free credit monitoring and identity theft protection for a year. The insurer says it isn't aware of the compromised information being misused.

Nationwide is one of the world's biggest insurance and financial services companies. It says the breach was discovered the day it happened and was contained.

Law enforcement is investigating the breach.

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Nationwide has known their system was open for attack. They and Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman violated Ohio and trade laws in 2008 on while redoing all three high rise buildings that in Nov 2008 caused a fire and blacked out the north end of Columbus. This has been filed in the Court of Claims as a procee case as no one in Columbus would take the case at that time as the 10TV news people said "they get all of their advertising from Nationwide. This case that relates back to this and will expose it all is now before the Ohio Supreme Court case number 2013-0257 and also shows how Ohio is a pay to play state and each state needs to look into this and contact Carl Cardi in the court case who is providing information to help the states go after the criminals that did this. A note after the fire in 2008 they tried to make a deal with Carl Cardi after not only risking their peoples lives and knowing they system was open to attack which the deal was not taken and the city of Columbus and the State of Ohio is and had been aware of it from day one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_jLmAB3leA&feature=related

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2008/11/14/story_downtown_fire.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=102