Erie Insurance resumes full business operations after month-long outage

(The Insurer) - Erie Insurance has restored key services and systems and says that no sensitive information was breached after an information security incident led to a system outage on June 7.

"After a thorough forensics investigation conducted by independent cybersecurity specialists, there is no evidence that any sensitive personal information, financial records or legally protected data was breached by the threat actor during this incident," the company said in a statement.

Erie was breached in a cluster of insurance company cyberattacks that took place throughout June.

The Insurer reportedlast week that Tokio Marine's Philadelphia Insurance Companies, First Insurance Company of Hawaii and Tokio Marine North America restored their core insurance systems after a 22-day outage following an unauthorized actor infiltrating their networks.

Aflac identified a breach on its U.S. network that may have exposed customers' personal information on June 12 and believes it to have been carried out by a sophisticated cybercrime group called Scattered Spider, Reuters reported.

Both Erie and Aflac were sued with proposed class actions from employees and customers who said that the companies failed to secure their information in these data breaches.

An Erie spokesperson said that the company does not comment on litigation, while another spokesperson said that it "strongly dispute(s) the claims and information included in these filings and will vigorously defend (itself) against them."

An Aflac spokesperson told The Insurer that the company is unable to comment on ongoing litigation, but that it is offering any individual who contacts its dedicated call center free credit monitoring, identity theft protection and Medical Shield for 24 months as a result of the breach.