AccidentalMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICEMPLOYMENTMediumResolved
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO
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Full breach record for METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO →Metropolitan Life Insurance Company notified California residents that on January 29, 2026, an associate inadvertently emailed a file containing personal data (SSN, name, coverage type, start date, group number) to an HR administrator at another MetLife group customer. The recipient notified MetLife the same day and confirmed deletion. MetLife offered one year of credit monitoring.
California clockDiscovered Jan 29, 2026 → Notified Mar 6, 202636d ✗ CA 30-day late5 weeks discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-619822
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 6, 2026
- Raw hash
- 64c5c2c28c391b77c01e1ab3bfdb15c0019a6a5cac0f359d9185e67a43d1a5a9
Reporting entity
- Name
- METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COnorm: metropolitan life insurance
- Domain
- metlife.com
Victim entity
- Name
- METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COnorm: metropolitan life insurance
- Domain
- metlife.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 29, 2026
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Mar 6, 2026
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_GOVERNMENTIDENTITY_BASICEMPLOYMENT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- Threat actor
- Internal
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(36 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 30-day late · 36dLeak >180dCA AG copy ≤15d · 0d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Jan 29, 2026→ Notified: Mar 6, 202636d 30 calendar days CA 30-day late California Consumers notified: Mar 6, 2026→ AG copy submitted: Mar 6, 20260d 15 calendar days CA AG copy ≤15d
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.