---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000320335-25-000004"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "GL"
cik: "0000320335"
company_name: "GLOBE LIFE INC."
filed_at: "2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T05:56:48.380414+00:00"
event_type: "cyber"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Globe Life updates cyber incident; notifying ~850k additional individuals despite no confirmed data acquisition

## Summary
- Threat actor obtained PII of ~5,000 individuals (names, SSNs, health data, etc.); no financial data.
- Company did not pay extortion; notified federal law enforcement.
- Data traced to databases maintained by small number of independent agency owners.
- Voluntarily notifying ~850,000 additional individuals whose data was in same databases, as precaution.
- No ransomware used; no business interruption; company believes incident not material.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000320335-25-000004
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: GL
- cik: 0000320335
- company_name: GLOBE LIFE INC.
- filed_at: 2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: cyber
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320335/000032033525000004/0000320335-25-000004-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320335/000032033525000004/gl-20241017.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000320335-25-000004
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000320335-25-000004.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000320335-25-000004.txt

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.