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Prudential Financial · SEC 8-K Item 1.05Filed Feb 13, 2024

Prudential Financial discloses a material cybersecurity incident

Material cybersecurity incidentSecurityUpdated 37h ago
Disclosed
Feb 13, 2024
Records
Not stated
Industry
Financial services
Filings
2
Data involved
Not listed by the filing.
SEC filing

What the filing says

On February 5, 2024, Prudential Financial, Inc. (the "Company" or "we") detected that, beginning February 4, 2024, a threat actor had gained unauthorized access to certain of our systems. With assistance from external cybersecurity experts, we immediately activated our cybersecurity incident response process to investigate, contain, and remediate the incident. As of the date of this Report, we believe that the threat actor, who we suspect to be a cybercrime group, accessed Company administrative and user data from certain information technology systems and a small percentage of Company user accounts associated with employees and contractors.

Timeline

  1. Amended filing · Feb 21, 00:00 UTC
    8-K/A: As disclosed in the Original Report, on February 5, 2024, we detected that, beginning February 4, 2024, a threat actor had gained unauthorized access to certain of our systems. With assistance from external cybersecurity experts, we immediately activated our cybersecurity incident response process to investigate, contain, and remediate the incident. As of the date of this Report, we believe the threat actor is a cybercrime group, and our investigation has identified that the group accessed and exfiltrated from a platform limited data that includes some client information and personally identifiable information.

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