InfoSec News Nuggets 7/3/2024

Prudential Data Breach Victim Count Soars to 2.5M  After initially disclosing a data breach in February to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it said was not materially impacting, Prudential Financial has updated its notice with a revised total number of affected residents — a number staggeringly higher than anticipated. More than 2.5 million individuals have been compromised by this data breach attack, rather than the 36,000 the insurance company originally said were affected. The stolen information includes…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 4/11/2024

Prudential Insurance says data of 36,000 exposed during February cyberattack Prudential Insurance — one of the largest insurers in the United States — said hackers stole the sensitive information of more than 36,000 during a February incident. In a filing on Friday with regulators in Maine, the company said it detected unauthorized access on February 5, prompting an investigation. “Through the investigation, we learned that the unauthorized third party gained access to our network on February 4, 2024…
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