HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsPhishingTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDPIIMediumContained

Ethos Technologies Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 8, 2022

Filed

Dec 20, 2022

To disclose

12 days

Affected

662state residents only

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Ethos Technologies Inc →2 incidents on file

Ethos Technologies Inc. disclosed a cyberattack where unauthorized actors used stolen personal data (name, DOB, address) obtained from other sources to access SSNs via the company's online insurance application. The incident occurred between August 4 and December 9, 2022. Ethos notified the FBI, engaged forensic investigators, and offered credit monitoring.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d12 days discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 126 days

discovery → filing · 12 days

Aug 4, 2022

Begins

Dec 8, 2022

Discovered

Dec 20, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_0dabcee7b806dee92022-12-21 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_138847a223ea759e2022-12-21 · +1dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_3023deeb85c68b172022-12-21 · +1dVerified
California State AGbd_46e2aa29e4614efd2022-12-21 · +1dVerified

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 288d gap

Oregon State AGbd_78f2062de73935142022-12-21 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_b384766745fe731b2022-12-21 · +1dVerified
California State AGbd_bd4f1101ee6011882023-10-04 · +288dVerified

Name: Ethos Technologies Inc
norm: ethos technologies

Name: Ethos Technologies Inc
norm: ethos technologies
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 8, 2022
Breach occurred: Aug 4, 2022 – Dec 9, 2022
Undetected for: 126 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 21, 2022
Affected individuals: 662state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1056 Input Capture
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBI
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified the FBI
Engaged an independent forensic investigation firm to assist with our investigation of and response to the incident
Made a series of technical changes to the software code of our website
Changes made: Made a series of technical changes to the software code of our website to prevent further unauthorized access to SSNs
Offering two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services provided by Experian
Offering up to $1 million of identity theft insurance
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 days(12 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states

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Washington State AGDec 20 · first · this page

Montana State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Indiana State AG+1d

California State AG+1d

Oregon State AG+1d

Maine State AG+1d

California State AG+288d

Pattern: first filing Dec 20 (WA), last Oct 4 (CA) — a 288-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA17035.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 20, 2022
Raw hash: c1b65bb92536be06627e0e6aa435528bf4df008787239a528f086488d967f42a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEthos Technologies Inc

Victim entityEthos Technologies Inc

Incidentdiscovered Dec 8, 2022

Stated responseNotified the FBI

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com