ID thief receives 30 months in prison

Cybernews reports that MetLife was claimed to have been compromised by the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service operation, which alleged the theft of 1 TB of data from the major global insurance company's systems. The insurance company, however, denied that its systems were compromised, saying an Ecuador-based subsidiary was impacted by a "cyber incident."

While Google Groups and LinkedIn reports noted the campaign to have commenced in early December, such an attack may have been tested since March as evidenced by command-and-control subdomains discovered by BleepingComputer.

U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius has been apprehended and charged by federal authorities over suspicion of exposing stolen AT&T and Verizon customer call records as the threat actor "Kiberphant0m," KrebsOnSecurity reports.