HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountLowContained

Central Carolina Insurance Agency

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 20, 2024

Filed

Nov 21, 2024

To disclose

35 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Central Carolina Insurance Agency →

Central Carolina Insurance Agency (CCIA) disclosed a data breach where an unauthorized third party accessed files containing names and financial account numbers between Dec 31, 2023, and Mar 20, 2024. CCIA detected the incident on Mar 20, 2024, engaged forensic investigators, and notified the FBI. CCIA is offering 12 months of credit monitoring. The total number of affected individuals was not disclosed in this notice.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday35 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 · 80 days

discovery → filing · 35 weeks / 246 days

Dec 31, 2023

Begins

Mar 20, 2024

Discovered

Nov 21, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+26 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by bianlian about this victim predates this filing by 225 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Leak Sitebianlianbd_2bcbfaea9f93c2032024-04-09 · +225dVerified

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_7b621deb402273332024-11-21Verified by operator
Indiana State AGbd_e97365ae56e4d7822024-11-21Verified
Maine State AGbd_ecb4c0429af064742024-11-21Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_a9edb2493a65ebea2024-12-03 · +12dVerified

Name: Central Carolina Insurance Agency
norm: central carolina insurance agency
Domain: centralcarolinainsurance.com

Name: Central Carolina Insurance Agency
norm: central carolina insurance agency
Domain: centralcarolinainsurance.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 20, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 31, 2023 – Mar 20, 2024
Undetected for: 80 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 21, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified the FBICooperating with federal law enforcement authorities
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disconnected all access to the network
Engaged a specialized third-party cybersecurity firm and IT personnel to assist with securing the environment
Conducted a comprehensive forensic investigation
Notified the FBI of the incident
Posted substitute notice on its website
Published media notice in The Charlotte Observer
Engaged a specialized third-party data mining vendor to identify the specific individuals and the types of information that may have been compromised
Contacted and are cooperating with federal law enforcement authorities
Changed administrative credentials
Restored operations in a safe manner
Changes made: Providing access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge for twelve months
Providing proactive fraud assistance through Cyberscout, a TransUnion company
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 35 weeks(246 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bdayLeak >180d
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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Massachusetts State AGNov 21 · first

Indiana State AGNov 21 · first

Maine State AGNov 21 · first

Vermont State AGNov 21 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+12d

Pattern: first filing Nov 21 (MA), last Dec 3 (NH) — a 12-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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-11-21-central-carolina-insurance-agency-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 21, 2024
Raw hash: c0b23d5fc58255c3284b6a85f8a8a0d58b39c43dc1a2b57a65ccb09542c0158e

Linked disclosures

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityCentral Carolina Insurance Agency

Victim entityCentral Carolina Insurance Agency

Incidentdiscovered Mar 20, 2024

Stated responseDisconnected all access to the network

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov