- The insurance giant AFLAC confirms it has been hit with a cyberattack
- The attack seems to have been of notorious spread spider group
- Increasingly notorious group targeted more British retailers earlier in 2025
AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company) has confirmed in a statement that it has suffered a cyber ‘event’ where hackers entered its network.
AFLAC, the largest supplementary insurance provider in the United States, says it was able to stop intrusion ‘within hours’ and the systems were not affected by ransomware.
While AFLAC has not confirmed the source of the violation, or who was behind it, the violation exhibits all signs of a scattered spider attack.
A wider campaign
The name scattered spider sounds well known to lots of readers, especially considering that the group is allegedly behind major and disturbing violations of British retailers Marks and Spencer and Co-Op, as well as luxury department store Harrods.
Google recently warned that the group was aiming for its sights against US companies and called on the US insurance sector to be on a high alarm for social technology and identification tasks.
Insurance companies are especially at risk as they have large quantities of personal data and provide huge profits that can be utilized for ransom.
“This attack, which many insurance companies are currently experiencing, was caused by a sophisticated cybercrime group. This was part of a cybercrime campaign against the insurance industry,” declared aflac’s statement.
“The potentially affected files contain requirements information, health information, social security number and/or other personal information related to customers, recipients, employees, agents and other people in our US business. We remain obliged to nurture and support our customers.”
Anyone who uses any services affected by this group (or affected by any data violation) must be very careful about any unexpected communication, looking for social technical attacks and should check the best protective software for identity theft to stay secure.
AFLAC also offers 24 months of free credit monitoring and identity theft -protection services for customers contacting their hotline after the violation.
Via Bleeping computer
