MetLife denies hack after ransomware group claims attack
- RansomHub claims to have breached what appears to be MetLife’s Latin American division
- Group leaks MetLife documents to support claim
- However, MetLife says the break-in involves a company owned by a subsidiary
Infamous ransomware group RansomHub claims it hacked the Latin American division of insurance giant MetLife on New Year’s Eve, but the company itself denies any incident.
RansomHub did provide receipts on its homepage in the form of corporate documents written in Spanish, but a MetLife spokesperson claimed in a statement that Cyber news that “there is no incident that we are aware of that has impacted MetLife’s Latin America division.”
The same representative acknowledged an incident involving Fondo Genesis, a financial services company that operates only in Ecuador and is owned by a subsidiary of MetLife.
MetLife and RansomHub
“Fondo Genesis operates separately from MetLife’s business systems. Therefore, the impact of this incident is only limited to Fondo Genesis,” they said.
If you’re curious, the leaked confidential files, according to Cybernews, consist of minutes of the crisis committee and the Finance Committee, lists of company IP addresses and administrative paperwork dating back to July last year.
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 as the huge number of ransomware victims claimed, with a fifth of all known attacks attributed to them.