MetLife denies hack after ransomware group claims attack
Date:
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:14:00 +0000
Description:
RansomHub leaks reported company documents, but MetLife says it is unaware of any incident.
FULL STORY ======================================================================RansomHu b claims intrusion into what appears to be MetLifes Latin-American division Group leaks MetLife documents to corroborate the claim However MetLife says the intrusion pertains to a company owned by a subsidiary
Infamous ransomware group RansomHub claims it breached the Latin-American division of insurance giant MetLife on New Years Eve, but the company itself is denying any incident.
RansomHub did provide receipts on its homepage in the form of company documents written in Spanish, but a MetLife spokesperson claimed in a statement to Cybernews that there is no incident that were aware of impacting MetLifes Latin American division.
The same representative did acknowledge an incident pertaining to Fondo Genesis, a financial services firm operating only in Ecuador and owned by a MetLife subsidiary. MetLife and RansomHub
Fondo Genesis operates separately from MetLifes enterprise systems.
Therefore, the impact of this incident is limited only to Fondo Genesis, they said.
If youre curious, the leaked confidential files, per Cybernews, comprise of crisis and Treasury committee minutes, lists of company IP addresses, and executive paperwork dated as far back as to last July.
RansomHub is a fairly new name in ransomware, with its first known victim dating back to February 2024, but last year became the top outfit for sheer number of ransomware victims claimed, with a fifth of all known attacks attributed to them. You might also like US Treasury declares major incident after apparent state-sponsored Chinese hack Atos database reportedly breached by hackers These are the best endpoint protection tools right now
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