Life-Health-Dental Insurance · Life Insurance · Private litigation + Data breach
Prudential Financial
Headline
According to the settlement website, files accessed in the February 2024 breach may have contained the full identity-theft package - names, dates of birth, account numbers, Social Security numbers and driver's license…
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
According to the settlement website, files accessed in the February 2024 breach may have contained the full identity-theft package - names, dates of birth, account numbers, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers - and two years later the settlement was still being administered. More usefully for anyone actually affected: the settlement schedule was REVISED mid-administration: on August 1, 2025 the court ordered changes, and a revised notice with corrected claim information and new deadlines was mailed by mid-August 2025. That is the practical warning this row carries. People treat a class-action notice as a one-time piece of junk mail, file it, and never look again - and in this case the terms and the deadlines that mattered arrived in the second envelope, not the first.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Case status. Private litigation; no sources are on file yet, so no legal tier is assigned.
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass beyond the settlement process itself — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected for individual policyholder agreements outside this specific breach settlement.
Data sharing
FEBRUARY 2024 BREACH: a cyberattack accessed files that, according to the court-approved settlement website, may have contained names, birthdates, account numbers, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. The resulting class action (In Re: Prudential Financial, Inc. Data Breach Litigation, D.N.J. No. 2:24-cv-06818) reached a $4.75 million settlement; on August 1, 2025 the court ordered changes to the settlement schedule, and a revised notice with corrected claim-filing information and revised dates was mailed by mid-August 2025 (claim deadline Nov. 17, 2025; opt-out/objection deadline Oct. 15, 2025) — illustrating that even settled breach cases can have their administration meaningfully revised well after an initial agreement is reached.
Fees and billing
Not itemized this pass.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. PUBLIC COMPANY (PRU). Service route: c/o General Counsel / Corporate Secretary, Newark, New Jersey — the corporate address on the SEC Form 10-K cover page is the official address of record. Confirm the exact street address on the current 10-K at sec.gov/edgar, and check the state-of-incorporation registered agent (usually Delaware; most large filers use The Corporation Trust Company or Corporation Service Company) via the Secretary of State business-entity search. A registered agent MUST accept service, which is why it is the reliable channel when a company publishes no privacy address.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy policy prudential.com/links/privacy-center | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service prudential.com/links/terms-of-use | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website prudential.com | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
Headquarters on file: New Jersey. Provisions of NJDPA on file:
| Provision | Type | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Required N.J. Stat. § 56:8-166.11(b) | hard | source |
| Minor Protections — Opt-In for Ages 13 to 16 N.J. Stat. § 56:8-166.12(a)(7) | hard | source |
| Sensitive Data — Expanded Categories Including Financial Information and Trans/NB Status N.J. Stat. § 56:8-166.4 | hard | source |
| Applicability Threshold — Activity-Based Second Tier (Any Sale Revenue) N.J. Stat. § 56:8-166.5 | threshold | source |
| Enforcement — AG; Higher Per-Violation Penalties Under NJ CFA N.J. Stat. §§ 56:8-166.17, 56:8-166.19 | hard | source |