Social EngineeringHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcarePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Health (basic)LowContained

WORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC

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Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

May 21, 2018

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for WORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC →3 incidents on file

Worldwide Insurance Services, LLC (doing business as GeoBlue) notified the California Attorney General of a data breach involving unauthorized access to employee email accounts. An attacker obtained credentials via a phishing scheme, potentially accessing emails containing international health plan information between October 11 and October 13, 2017. The company engaged forensic investigators, implemented MFA, and offered identity monitoring to affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

Oct 11, 2017

Begins

May 21, 2018

Filed

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

Name: WORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC
norm: worldwide insurance

Name: WORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC
norm: worldwide insurance
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Oct 11, 2017 – Oct 13, 2017
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged a leading computer forensic firm to assist with the investigation
Provided extensive training to employees regarding phishing emails and other cybersecurity issues
Installed software to detect phishing emails and prevent their receipt by employees
Implemented multi-factor authentication for email
Secured the services of Experian to offer a complimentary one-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Changes made: Provided extensive training to employees regarding phishing emails and other cybersecurity issues
Installed software to detect phishing emails and prevent their receipt by employees
Implemented multi-factor authentication for email
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/sb24-136424
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 21, 2018
Raw hash: b684cd8fdb20aa91c3c9377e0ddd9f9d2be9cb2a20ed463910de84bc9bfbf5ff

Reporting entityWORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC

Victim entityWORLDWIDE INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC

IncidentPhishing

Stated responseEngaged a leading computer forensic firm to assist with the investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov