Security News > 2024 > February > Prudential Financial breached in data theft cyberattack
Prudential Financial has disclosed that its network was breached last week, with the attackers stealing employee and contractor data before being blocked from compromised systems one day later.
"As of the date of this Report, we believe that the threat actor, who we suspect to be a cybercrime group, accessed Company administrative and user data from certain information technology systems and a small percentage of Company user accounts associated with employees and contractors," Prudential said.
Prudential has reported the security breach to law enforcement agencies and notified all relevant regulatory authorities of the data breach.
"As of the date of this Report, the incident has not had a material impact on the Company's operations, and the Company has not determined the incident is reasonably likely to materially impact the Company's financial condition or results of operations," the company said.
The personal information of over 320,000 Prudential customers whose data had been handled by third-party vendor Pension Benefit Information was exposed in May 2023 after the Clop cybercrime gang breached PBI's MOVEit Transfer file sharing platform.
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