Just received a notice letter? Cases are filed first-come, first-served. You may be entitled to compensation.
Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC was the subject of a data breach notification filed with the TX Attorney General. The AG filing was recorded on October 14, 2025. The breach or discovery date reported in the filing is March 6, 2025.
From the AG filing description
Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC operates as a prominent personal lines insurance agency, serving thousands of clients by navigating complex property, casualty, and life insurance markets. Because of the nature of insurance brokerage and underwriting support, Goosehead collects an immense volume of deeply sensitive personal and financial data. To provide accurate quotes, underwrite policies, and process premium payments, the firm routinely gathers comprehensive background details, financial histories, and government-issued identification numbers from its policyholders. This wealth of information makes the company an attractive target for malicious actors seeking to exploit centralized repositories of high-value consumer data. In 2025, Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC reported a significant data security incident to the Texas Attorney General, alerting consumers and regulatory authorities to a compromise of its network infrastructure. While the precise vector of the attack remains under active investigation, incidents affecting financial and insurance entities typically involve sophisticated ransomware deployments, credential harvesting attacks, or vulnerabilities within third-party vendor platforms. In the insurance sector, malicious actors frequently target legacy databases and poorly secured cloud storage containers designed to streamline client onboarding and policy administration, allowing unauthorized third parties to bypass security perimeters undetected. The data exposed in the Goosehead breach likely encompasses a dangerous combination of personally identifiable information (PII) and financial records, including full names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, banking details, insurance policy numbers, and claims history. The exposure of this information creates severe, immediate risks for affected consumers. When Social Security numbers and financial account details are compromised, victims face a heightened threat of financial account takeover, fraudulent loan applications, and unauthorized wire transfers. Furthermore, the combination of policy numbers and personal identifiers allows bad actors to execute targeted phishing campaigns and synthetic identity fraud that can take years to uncover and resolve. As an insurance agency handling sensitive consumer data, Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC was bound by rigorous legal and regulatory obligations to safeguard its network. Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and applicable state data protection standards, financial and insurance institutions are required to implement robust administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect non-public personal information. The occurrence of a data breach of this magnitude strongly suggests that the company may have failed to maintain adequate encryption standards, deploy continuous threat monitoring, or enforce strict access controls. Such shortcomings represent a potential breach of statutory duties and an actionable failure to protect consumer privacy. Receiving a data breach notification letter from Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC is a formal acknowledgment that your private information was compromised due to inadequate corporate security. Legally, this notice serves as confirmation that you have suffered an injury in fact, establishing the necessary legal standing to participate in a class action lawsuit against the company. Importantly, affected individuals do not need to prove that they have already suffered direct financial loss or identity theft to seek legal redress. Our firm investigates these matters on a contingency fee basis, meaning there are never any out-of-pocket costs or fees unless we successfully recover compensation on your behalf.
Based on the data types reported in this filing:
Your SSN is the master key to your identity. Once exposed, criminals can open new lines of credit, take out loans, or file taxes in your name.
Combined with a name and other leaked data, date of birth helps criminals pass identity verification questions at banks and government agencies.
You may have been affected by the Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC data breach if:
Common categories of compensation in data breach class actions
Courts recognize that the time spent monitoring accounts, placing credit freezes, and dealing with the aftermath of a breach has real economic value. This category of damages is recoverable even without direct financial loss.
Professional credit monitoring services cost $10–$40 per month. Identity theft restoration services, if needed, can cost hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars. Courts have awarded these costs as direct damages in SSN breach cases.
Direct financial losses resulting from the breach — unauthorized charges, fraudulent transfers, or fees incurred through fraud — are recoverable as compensatory damages. Banks may reverse some charges; a class action recovers the remainder and associated costs.
Several state data breach laws provide for statutory minimum damages — fixed amounts recoverable per affected individual regardless of actual loss. These provisions exist specifically to make legal action viable for victims who have not yet experienced direct harm.
Note: an attorney general breach filing does not by itself establish a settlement fund, a payment amount, or a claim deadline. If an official settlement notice is later issued, rely on that notice for payment details and deadlines.
Applicable State Law
This breach was reported under the Texas Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, which mandates notification and establishes your right to seek damages.
No. Under Texas Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act and federal law, the unauthorized exposure of your personal data — regardless of whether it has been actively misused — can be sufficient grounds for a claim. The breach itself is the injury.
Nothing. The Law Office of David S. Harris handles data breach cases on contingency — you pay zero upfront and owe nothing unless compensation is recovered.
Immediately place a free credit freeze at all three bureaus (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion). A freeze blocks new accounts from being opened in your name. Then file a complaint with the FTC at IdentityTheft.gov and contact our office — SSN exposure is one of the most serious breach types.
Banks may reverse fraudulent charges, but they are not obligated to compensate you for time lost, stress, or indirect damages. A class action claim against the breached company can recover those additional categories of harm.
Statutes of limitations for data breach claims vary by state but typically run 2–4 years. Depending on when you learned of the breach, you may still have time. Contact our office for a free eligibility review — there is no cost to find out.
Accepting free credit monitoring from Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC does not waive your right to pursue legal action unless you signed a specific release waiving claims. In most cases, victims who accepted monitoring can still file.
Not necessarily. Many data breach victims are never notified directly. If your personal information was held by Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC during the relevant period, you may still qualify even without receiving a letter. A free eligibility review can confirm your status.
Received a notification letter from Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC?
Read our dedicated guide — what the letter means and what to do.
Learn how to participate in the class action and what compensation you may be entitled to.
Join the Class Action →Use our verification tool to confirm your letter matches this official AG filing.
Verify My Notice LetterThis case file references a public filing made with the state filing in TX. This website is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any state government agency.
Goosehead Insurance Agency, LLC breach?
Free case review · No fee unless you win