Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)LowContained

Word & Brown Insurance Administrators, Inc.

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Oct 23, 2024

Filed

Mar 24, 2025

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Word & Brown Insurance Administrators, Inc. →2 incidents on file

Word & Brown Insurance Administrators, Inc. notified the California AG of a data breach discovered on October 23, 2024. An employee workstation was compromised via a phishing scam, leading to unauthorized access and exfiltration of files containing names and other data elements to an external server. The company isolated the system, engaged forensic consultants, and is offering credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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California clockDiscovered Oct 23, 2024 → Notified Mar 24, 2025152d ✗ CA 60-day late22 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 22 weeks / 152 days

Oct 23, 2024

Begins

Oct 23, 2024

Discovered

Mar 24, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+13 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Illinois State AGbd_eb084c9d0f1bdfbf2025-03-01 · +23dVerified

Name: Word & Brown Insurance Administrators, Inc.
norm: word brown insurance administrators
Domain: wbcompanies.com

Name: Word & Brown Insurance Administrators, Inc.
norm: word brown insurance administrators
Domain: wbcompanies.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 23, 2024
Breach occurred: Oct 23, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 24, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Isolated the workstation
Engaged third-party cybersecurity consultants to determine the nature and scope of the event
Offering access to 12/24 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through IDX
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 weeks(152 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 152d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Oct 23, 2024
→ Notified: Mar 24, 2025
152d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Oct 23, 2024 → Notified: Mar 24, 2025	152d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Illinois State AGMar 1 · first

California State AG+23d · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 1 (IL), last Mar 24 (CA) — a 23-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-600323
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 24, 2025
Raw hash: dc0170492f807c1b18069ee336be26144b58c44a50d480a5157253fe712d450b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWord & Brown Insurance Administrators, Inc.

Victim entityWord & Brown Insurance Administrators, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Oct 23, 2024

Stated responseIsolated the workstation

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov