HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCriticalContained

SouthState Bank, National Association

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

Feb 7, 2024

Filed

May 24, 2024

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

844,672state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for SouthState Bank, National Association →

SouthState Bank notified affected individuals of unauthorized network access discovered on February 7, 2024. The incident exposed names, financial account numbers, and Social Security numbers. The bank engaged a cybersecurity firm for investigation and offered one year of Identity Defense Total services to victims.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due15 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 107 days

Feb 7, 2024

Begins

Feb 7, 2024

Discovered

May 24, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

SEC 8-Kbd_217080e47783c9452024-03-29 · +56dVerified
California State AGbd_3ebc922cbd0941162024-03-29 · +56dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_9bf8dbf6d1f0d7482024-03-01 · +84dCandidate
SEC 8-Kbd_f655a07dd67951912024-02-09 · +105dCandidate

Name: SouthState Bank, National Association
norm: southstate bank national

Name: SouthState Bank, National Association
norm: southstate bank national
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 7, 2024
Breach occurred: Feb 7, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 9, 2024
Affected individuals: 844,672state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged a cybersecurity firm to assist in an investigation
Arranged for complimentary one-year membership with Identity Defense Total
Taking steps to further enhance existing security measures
Changes made: Enhancing existing security measures to help protect against an incident like this happening again
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(107 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 3 states

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SEC 8-KFeb 9 · first

Illinois State AG+21d

SEC 8-K+49d

California State AG+49d

South Carolina State AG+105d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 9, last May 24 (SC) — a 105-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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/2024/SouthStateBank%20(1).pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 24, 2024
Raw hash: aa7c415047e44fc167f1c1aa26169e8d177c4d5d70448a3fcd648677c87b617a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySouthState Bank, National Association

Victim entitySouthState Bank, National Association

Incidentdiscovered Feb 7, 2024

Stated responseEngaged a cybersecurity firm to assist in an investigation

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov