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TRUEbenefits LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 19, 2017

Filed

Sep 18, 2017

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for TRUEbenefits LLC →

TRUEbenefits LLC experienced a phishing incident where an employee's compromised email account was used to send phishing emails on May 19, 2017. The unauthorized access occurred between May 18 and May 19, 2017. Affected data may include names, Social Security numbers, and protected health information (PHI) such as diagnoses and treatment details. The company secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered two years of identity monitoring to affected individuals.

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days
discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 122 days

May 18, 2017

Begins

May 19, 2017

Discovered

Sep 18, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filing ↓up to 35d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
HHS OCRAug 14 · first
Washington State AGAug 14 · first
Massachusetts State AGAug 14 · first
California State AG+35d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 14 (WA), last Sep 18 (CA) — a 35-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.