Prudential Financial has disclosed a cybersecurity breach.
Detected on February 5 2024, the breach involved unauthorized access to certain company systems.
In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on February 12 2024, Prudential said it immediately activated its cybersecurity incident response protocol and is working with external experts to investigate and mitigate the incident.
The company suspects the involvement of a cybercrime group.
According to Prudential, the breach exposed administrative and user data from specific IT systems and some employee and contractor accounts, but there's no evidence of customer or client data compromise.
Commenting on the news, Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-Founder of Keeper Security, said there will likely be a surge of mandatory cyber-incident reports to the Federal Commission following the finalization of the new SEC reporting requirements.
The disclosure of the Prudential Financial breach comes in the wake of Bank of America's recent notification to its customers regarding a data breach via one of its service providers, Infosys McCamish Systems.
This Cyber News was published on www.infosecurity-magazine.com. Publication date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:30:17 +0000