Security News > 2023 > June > MOVEit compromise affects pension systems, insurers

The compromise of PBI Research and The Berwyn Group's MOVEit installation has resulted in the theft of data belonging to several pension systems and insurance companies - and millions of their users.

The fallout from the PBI Research MOVEit compromise.

CalPERS - the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which is also the largest pension system in the US - says that personal information of approximately 769,000 members has been compromised.

On June 7, BPI alerted Wilton Reassurance - an insurance provider - about the incident in MOVEit Transfer.

"PBI Research Services, or PBI, is a third-party vendor that Genworth uses to satisfy regulatory obligations to scan social security data to determine whether a customer may have passed and triggered death benefits under a life insurance policy or annuity contract. We also partner with PBI to identify deaths across our other lines of insurance and insurance agents to whom we pay commissions," the company explained.

"The event included personal information for approximately ~2.5-2.7 million individuals who are either customers or insurance agents. The personal information accessed included life insurance, individual long-term care insurance, and annuity customers. We are working to understand what personal information related to our group long-term care products may have been affected. For policyholders, the exposed information includes: social security number, name, date of birth, zip code, state of residence, and policy number. For agents, the exposed information includes the agent ID, name, date of birth, and full address."

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