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

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.

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oup-claims-attack

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