Data Leak Incident Reported by Fortune 500 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

The personal information of multiple customers was exposed in the form of an attachment sent to a Benefits Administrator as reported by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife) in a notice of data breach forwarded to the Office of the Attorney General of California.

However, according to MetLife notification, "The Benefits Administrator, who regularly works with MetLife, deleted the email, including your personal information. The Benefits Administrator routinely handles sensitive information and we do not believe your information is at risk."

The data exposed during the inadvertent leak incident contained customers' social security numbers (SSNs), insurance coverage information, dates of birth, genders, and addresses.

Despite considering that their customers' personally identifiable information (PII) was not put at risk, MetLife decided to still provide "an online three-bureau credit monit...