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HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsBECCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountPHILowContained

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

bd_14a501256df2e968 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 27, 2016

Filed

Oct 20, 2016

To disclose

23 days

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company16 incidents on file

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company notified Montana residents of a data breach discovered on September 27, 2016. Unauthorized actors accessed customer accounts on statefarm.com using valid credentials, leading to unauthorized transactions, profile changes, and misuse of financial cards and loyalty points. Affected data included names, contact info, insurance policy details (including health insurance), and financial account numbers. State Farm disabled accounts, offered 12 months of TransUnion credit monitoring, and is implementing further security measures.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 23 days

Sep 27, 2016

Discovered

Oct 20, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

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.