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Specialty Market Managers

bd_04d58a6c39a3135a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

May 20, 2024

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Specialty Market Managers

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group INC Ransom on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2024-05-20

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

We have over 20+ years experience providing specialty insurance products and over 75% of our staff has worked on both the agency and company sides of the business. The one thing we take the most pride in is our service. Our goal is to create a collaborative relationship with our brokers, which is why our underwriters and support staff are some of the most accessible in the industry. Our flexibility and freedom from the normal bureaucracy of an insurance company have allowed us to create some of the most comprehensive coverage options in the industry. We have over 20+ years of experience in placing insurance coverage for a diverse range of classes. Inspired by the lack of options in the traditional Domestic Insurance Market, our founders, Jeremiah P. O'Donovan and Marsha Smith, created Specialty market Managers. Whether as a Program Manager, Captive Participant or a wholesale broker Specialty Market Managers has access to the insurance products your customers need.

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

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Breach window unknown

May 20, 2024

Claim posted

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

Compliance clock

Not assessable

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Unverified claimView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

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

Press / market report

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

State AG / regulator filing

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

SEC 8-K / victim statement

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

No regulatory filing corroborates this yet — it is the attacker's own assertion. Watch this entity to be notified the moment a filing corroborates or contradicts it.

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