Tokio Marine Holdings announce ransomware attack against their Singapore branch

This week, Tokio Marine Holdings, one of the largest property and casualty insurance group in Japan, announced that their Singapore branch, Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore (TMiS) had experienced a ransomware attack.

Very little information about the incident has been released apart from their actions in response to the incident. Tokio Marine Holdings have state that the ransomware attack only affected Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore and that the other companies that the group own have not experienced any impacts from the attack. They haven’t declared how or when the incident occurred or the impact of the incident but they stated that TMiS immediately isolated their network when they detected the attack and informed the local government agencies.

They also confirmed “that there is no indication of a breach of any customer information nor confidential information of the Group.”