Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

QBE North America

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 1, 2017

Filed

Aug 4, 2017

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for QBE North America →5 incidents on file

QBE North America notified Montana residents of a phishing attack on May 31, 2017, which compromised five employee email accounts. The incident exposed customers' names, addresses, dates of birth, emails, and driver's license numbers contained in aviation insurance correspondence. QBE reset passwords and offered two years of Experian IdentityWorks services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 64 days

May 31, 2017

Begins

Jun 1, 2017

Discovered

Aug 4, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_993f065a85ecfe2a2017-07-03 · +32dCandidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_9685d3b43da78ee32017-09-13 · +40dVerified

Name: QBE North America
norm: qbe north america
Domain: us.qbe.com

Name: QBE North America
norm: qbe north america
Domain: us.qbe.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 1, 2017
Breach occurred: May 31, 2017
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 4, 2017
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: The employees who accessed the phishing site have had their passwords reset
Continuing our efforts to inform and educate users of phishing techniques and train employees how to properly identify and react to suspicious email behavior
Changes made: Train employees how to properly identify and react to suspicious email behavior
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(64 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGJul 3 · first

Montana State AG+32d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+72d

Pattern: first filing Jul 3 (NH), last Sep 13 (NH) — a 72-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/QBE-North-America.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 4, 2017
Raw hash: 47f9df56ff5b611fd16f584e0ded6af11ebf6fbf84e5f1e72a52673c3cb81edf

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityQBE North America

Victim entityQBE North America

Incidentdiscovered Jun 1, 2017

Stated responseThe employees who accessed the phishing site have had their passwords reset

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov