Southeast Series of Lockton Companies, LLC (“Lockton”) ADDENDUM was the subject of a data breach notification filed with the DE Attorney General. The AG filing was recorded on May 23, 2025. The breach or discovery date reported in the filing is November 20, 2024.
Data Exposed
Southeast Series of Lockton Companies, LLC (“Lockton”) ADDENDUM was the subject of a data breach notification filed with the DE Attorney General. The AG filing was recorded on May 23, 2025. The breach or discovery date reported in the filing is November 20, 2024.
Southeast Series of Lockton Companies, LLC operates within the complex insurance brokerage, risk management, and employee benefits consulting sectors. As a major player in commercial insurance and corporate risk advisory services, Lockton handles vast quantities of exceptionally sensitive information for corporate clients, executives, and individual policyholders alike. The company routinely collects and maintains comprehensive underwriting files, detailed corporate risk assessments, complex employee census data, and sensitive financial records necessary for designing, placing, and administering sophisticated insurance and benefits programs. Because they serve as a central nexus between employers, employees, and major insurance carriers, organizations of this type possess a massive repository of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and corporate proprietary data, making them prime targets for malicious actors seeking high-value targets. The security incident reported by Southeast Series of Lockton Companies, LLC to the Delaware Attorney General in 2025 highlights the persistent and sophisticated cyber threats facing the insurance and financial services sector. While exact forensic details continue to be evaluated, incidents affecting major insurance brokers and risk management firms typically involve unauthorized access to corporate networks, compromises of third-party vendor systems, or targeted ransomware deployments designed to exfiltrate confidential databases. In the insurance industry, attackers frequently exploit vulnerabilities in legacy file-sharing platforms, administrative portals, or employee credential management systems to infiltrate internal repositories, remaining undetected for extended periods while harvesting sensitive corporate and personal files. The breach of Lockton's systems exposed a wide array of sensitive data fields, each carrying severe implications for the affected individuals. Compromised information frequently includes full names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, banking and direct deposit details, detailed insurance policy numbers, claims histories, and comprehensive compensation and benefits records. The exposure of Social Security numbers and financial data creates an immediate and severe risk of identity theft, financial account takeover, and fraudulent tax filings. Furthermore, the compromise of insurance policy and claims data exposes individuals to targeted phishing schemes, social engineering attacks, and unauthorized insurance fraud, where bad actors utilize proprietary policy details to impersonate trusted brokers or carriers. As a custodian of sensitive personal and financial data, Southeast Series of Lockton Companies, LLC is bound by rigorous legal obligations under state data protection statutes, common law duties of care, and industry-standard regulatory frameworks such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) where applicable to financial and insurance intermediaries. These legal standards require organizations to implement robust administrative, physical, and technical safeguards—including multi-factor authentication, rigorous network monitoring, data encryption, and regular vulnerability assessments—to protect consumer data from unauthorized access. The occurrence of a data breach of this magnitude strongly suggests potential failures in maintaining these mandatory security protocols, raising serious questions about whether the company fulfilled its legal duty to adequately protect private information. Receiving a formal data notification letter from Southeast Series of Lockton Companies, LLC serves as official legal confirmation that your confidential information was compromised due to corporate security failures. Under modern data breach jurisprudence, this notification establishes the foundational legal standing required to pursue a class action lawsuit seeking accountability, restitution, and enhanced protective measures. Critically, victims are not required to demonstrate immediate financial loss or out-of-pocket theft to participate in legal action, as the increased risk of future identity theft and the loss of data privacy constitute actionable harms. Our firm investigates and prosecutes these data breach cases on a strict contingency fee basis, meaning affected individuals incur zero out-of-pocket costs and pay no attorney fees unless a successful recovery is secured on their behalf.
Based on the data types reported, affected individuals face:
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.
What the Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act and federal statutes entitle you to recover:
The hours spent responding to a data breach — canceling accounts, contacting credit bureaus, updating passwords, and investigating fraud — represent compensable economic harm in data breach litigation.
Once your SSN is exposed, protection becomes an ongoing expense. Plaintiffs in data breach settlements have recovered costs for credit freezes, identity protection subscriptions, and time spent dealing with fraudulent accounts — sometimes covering multiple years of exposure.
Fees charged to close and reopen accounts, issue replacement cards, or dispute fraudulent transactions are recoverable in data breach litigation. So are the costs of overdrafts, late payments, and credit damage caused by unauthorized activity.
Data breach victims regularly report anxiety, loss of sleep, and ongoing fear of identity theft. These non-economic harms are cognizable injuries in data breach litigation, particularly in cases involving SSN or medical record exposure.
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.
No. Under Delaware Online Privacy 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 Southeast Series of Lockton Companies, LLC (“Lockton”) ADDENDUM 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 Southeast Series of Lockton Companies, LLC (“Lockton”) ADDENDUM during the relevant period, you may still qualify even without receiving a letter. A free eligibility review can confirm your status.
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