Genworth Financial reports Life-Insurance Data exposed inData Breach

Genworth Financial has disclosed a data breach in which information belonging to a significant amount of personal data was unlawfully accessed through its third-party vendor PBI Research Services.

The impacted individuals are life-insurance policyholders, but no details were provided as to the number of impacted individuals nor the exposed data.

While Genworth does not anticipate any impact on its financial operations, it has initiated an investigation to determine the severity of the breach and is taking steps to ensure affected individuals receive protection services.

The data theft involved the use of MOVEit's file-transfer system, which is utilized for managing file transfers within computer networks.