American Family Insurance confirms cyberattack is behind IT outages

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Insurance giant American Family Insurance has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack and shut down portions of its IT systems after customers reported website outages all week.
American Family Insurance (AmFam) is an insurance company focusing on commercial and personal property, casualty, auto, and life insurance, as well as offering investment and retirement planning The company employs 13,000 people and has a 2022 revenue of $14.4 billion.
In an email to BleepingComputer, American Family Insurance confirmed that they detected unusual activity on their network and shut off IT systems to prevent the spread of the cyberattack.
 
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