Another Day Another Cyber Breach

Kemper Corporation (Kemper”), alleged to be one of the nation’s leading specialized insurance providers that services over 4.6 million policies, is represented by approximately 24,200 nationwide agents and brokers, and has approximately $12 billion in assets, was hacked in mid-April. In three recently filed Class Action lawsuits in the Northern District of Illinois, former employees allege that the security breach resulted in the theft of their personal identifiable information (“PII”). All three complaints allege that the cyber hacking group known as ShinyHunters breached Kemper’s IT systems and threatened to leak over 13 million records to a dark website.

In the Class Action complaints, some plaintiffs allege that compromised PII includes names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, insurance policy information, claims data and other sensitive personal and financial information. All plaintiffs allege that the data breach resulted from Kemper’s failure to implement adequate and reasonable cyber-security procedures necessary to protect their individual information, which Kemper was entrusted with for employment or other business relationships.

The plaintiffs seek certification of a nationwide class consisting of “All persons in the United States who were impacted by the Data Breach…” and “All persons whose Private Information was compromised because of the April 2026 Data Breach”. Plaintiffs seek equitable relief enjoining Kemper from engaging in wrongful conduct relating to its misuse of their PII, compelling Kemper to use appropriate methods and policies related to data collection and storage, directing Kemper to pay for ten years of credit monitoring services, and requiring Kemper to pay compensatory and punitive damages, as well as additional forms of relief.

This was only one of many data breaches that continue to plague businesses and individuals alike. The fact that it happened to one of the largest insurance companies in the nation (that actually provides Identity Fraud Expense Coverage as an add-on to their insurance policies) is rather telling.

The cases are Kurt Irons v. Kemper Corp., Case No. 1:26-cv-04419, U.S.D.C., Northern District of Illinois; Richelle Long v. Kemper Corp., Case No. 1:26-cv-04393, U.S.D.C., Northern District of Illinois; and Keviin Kozuszek v. Kemper Corp., Case No. 1:26-CV-04428, U.S.D.C., Northern District of Illinois.