PhysicalFinancial ServicesFinanceLossCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumActive

Columbus Life Insurance Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 18, 2015

Filed

Apr 17, 2015

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

208state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Columbus Life Insurance Company →2 incidents on file

Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company reported the loss of an unencrypted flash drive containing policyholder PII (names, SSNs, addresses, bank account info) for 208 New Hampshire residents. The drive was lost in the mail on or around March 18, 2015. Notices were sent on April 17, 2015, offering one year of identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Mar 18, 2015

Discovered

Apr 17, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed208 affectedView incident

Name: The Columbian
norm: the columbian
Domain: columbian.com

Name: Columbus Life Insurance Company
norm: columbus life insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 18, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 17, 2015
Affected individuals: 208state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney GeneralProviding written notice of this incident to other regulators in the United States and CanadaProviding written notice to the national consumer reporting agencies in the United Statescc: New Hampshire Insurance Department

During the incident: Retained forensics experts to confirm the nature of this incident and the full scope of affected individuals
Provided written notice of this incident to affected individuals
Offered access to one (1) free year of identity protection services and identity restoration services
Providing written notice of this incident to other regulators in the United States and Canada and to the national consumer reporting agencies in the United States
Changes made: No longer shipping flash drives containing policyholder information
Reviewing its procedures surrounding the security and confidentiality of records containing personal information throughout the organization
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/columbian-financial-group-20150417.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 17, 2015
Raw hash: 930c21ae7ee1bee870763143e75c91415f62fc90b53803e791ec16927dd5d31d

Reporting entityThe Columbian

Victim entityColumbus Life Insurance Company

Incidentdiscovered Mar 18, 2015

Stated responseRetained forensics experts to confirm the nature of this incident and the full scope of affected individuals

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov