MetLife denies hack after ransomware group claims attack
techradar.com- RansomHub claims intrusion into what appears to be MetLife’s 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 Year’s 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 we’re aware of impacting MetLife’s 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 MetLife’s enterprise systems. Therefore, the impact of this incident is limited only to Fondo ...
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