AccidentalMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumResolved
METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO
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Full breach record for METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO →Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) reported a data security breach to the California Office of the Attorney General. On July 24, 2020, MetLife inadvertently sent an email containing a report with recipients' names, Social Security numbers, and premium refund information to a benefits department at an unrelated company. The recipient's employer and a consultant deleted the data and notified MetLife on July 27, 2020. MetLife offered one year of free credit monitoring via TransUnion to affected individuals.
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/sb24-192939
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 10, 2020
- Raw hash
- 0a7de4ab286b0deab3cb9621459dbda11d45825286d65413db95c49c9cf23ffc
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
- Jul 27, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 14 days(14 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.