Private Data of More Than 2.5 Million Prudential Customers Compromised in Breach

Stolen information includes names, driver’s licenses, and other personally identifiable information.

The Prudential Center and the city skyline in Boston on March 20, 2020. Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

Financial services company Prudential Financial recently updated the number of customers impacted in a hacking attempt earlier this year from 36,000 to more than 2.5 million.

Prudential had revealed the data breach in a Feb. 12 filing with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). The hack took place on Feb. 5 and the company said it received assistance from external cybersecurity experts and “immediately activated our cybersecurity incident response process to investigate, contain, and remediate the incident.”