Social EngineeringHealthcareHealthcarePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryPIIIdentity (basic)HighContained

EyeMed Vision Care LLC

bd_03f6bce6b4d9bc45 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Jul 1, 2020

Filed

Jan 27, 2021

To disclose

30 weeks

Affected

219,518state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

64%

EyeMed Vision Care LLC notified South Carolina residents of a data breach occurring between June 24 and July 1, 2020. An unauthorized individual accessed an EyeMed email mailbox and sent phishing emails to contacts in the address book. EyeMed secured the mailbox, engaged a cybersecurity firm, reset passwords, and provided two years of free identity monitoring via Kroll. Personal information of vision benefit recipients may have been accessed.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due30 weeks 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 · 7 days

discovery → filing · 30 weeks / 210 days

Jun 24, 2020

Begins

Jul 1, 2020

Discovered

Jan 27, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+17 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_34d1a19c2cb74c792020-12-11 · +47dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_dd7329e4945257ee2020-12-11 · +47dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_a4c254565b7d4e752020-12-01 · +57dVerified
Maine State AGbd_cf86ae44e1360d1c2020-11-30 · +58dVerified

Name: EyeMed Vision Care LLC
norm: eyemed vision care
Domain: eyemed.com

Name: EyeMed Vision Care LLC
norm: eyemed vision care
Domain: eyemed.com
Industry: Healthcarellm

Discovered: Jul 1, 2020
Breach occurred: Jun 24, 2020 – Jul 1, 2020
Undetected for: 7 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 219,518state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Blocked the unauthorized individual’s access to the mailbox and secured the mailbox
Launched an investigation into the incident and engaged a cybersecurity firm to assist in its efforts
Made changes to how authorized individuals access the EyeMed network
Required immediate complex password changes to all our employee accounts
Reinforcing and providing additional mandatory security awareness training
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for two years
Changes made: Made changes to how authorized individuals access the EyeMed network
Required immediate complex password changes to all our employee accounts
Reinforcing and providing additional mandatory security awareness training
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 30 weeks(210 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
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 · 5 filings · 5 states

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Maine State AGNov 30 · first

New Hampshire State AG+1d

California State AG+11d

Delaware State AG+11d

South Carolina State AG+58d · this page

Pattern: first filing Nov 30 (ME), last Jan 27 (SC) — a 58-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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2020/EyeMed.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 27, 2021
Raw hash: 2d15c1e62ed56d2bf7e2cd197d514d47d4e36394318664831413cbad50bcfa64

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityEyeMed Vision Care LLC

Victim entityEyeMed Vision Care LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jul 1, 2020

Stated responseBlocked the unauthorized individual’s access to the mailbox and secured the mailbox

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov