Prudential Insurance coverage has introduced that hackers stole the data of greater than 36,000 folks in a February breach.

In a regulatory submitting in Maine, Prudential’s regulation agency, Debevoise & Plimpton, stated the insurer detected unauthorized entry to its community on Feb. 5, in response to a report by The Document.

“Via the investigation, we discovered that the unauthorized third social gathering gained entry to our community on February 4, 2024, and eliminated a small share of private data from our system,” the submitting stated.

In line with Prudential, the names, addresses, and driver’s license or ID card numbers of 36,545 folks have been accessed. The corporate has notified regulation enforcement of the breach and employed an outdoor cybersecurity agency to help in its response.

Victims of the breach shall be given two years of id safety companies, The Document reported.

On Feb. 13, Prudential filed paperwork with the Securities and Alternate Fee stating {that a} cybercrime group had been in a position to entry “administrative and consumer knowledge from sure data expertise techniques” and “a small share” of consumer accounts related to staff and contractors.

On Feb. 16, ransomware gang AlphV claimed duty for the assault. The gang can also be chargeable for a February assault towards mortgage lender loanDepot, The Document reported.

Regulation enforcement companies within the US, the UK and the European Union coordinated a takedown of AlphV’s web site in December, however the ransomware group was shortly in a position to set up a brand new platform, in response to The Document. The group was additionally allegedly tangentially concerned within the current Change Healthcare assault. That assault was carried out by a special ransomware group, and resulted within the cost of a $22 million ransom – which AlphV allegedly then stole from the opposite cybercrime group, The Document reported.

Final week, the State Division introduced a reward of as much as $10 million for details about the id or location of AlphV members.

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