North Texas-based Globe Life extorted in data breach

McKinney-based life insurance company Globe Life files with the US Securities and Exchange Commission a form related to a cybersecurity event.

We've read the filing this morning and found that someone is extorting them for money to prevent the bad actor from disclosing information obtained in a hack.

The SEC filing reads, in part:

Globe Life Inc. (the “Company”) recently received communications from an unknown threat actor seeking to extort money from the Company in exchange for not disclosing certain information held and used by the Company and its independent agents. After becoming aware of this, the Company immediately activated its incident response plan and, with the assistance of experienced counsel and external cybersecurity experts, launched an investigation. The Company has reported this extortion attempt to and is cooperating with federal law enforcement.

Globe Life suffered a massive data breach back in June.

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