The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
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Full breach record for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company →Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company reported a data breach involving a financial advisor who was the victim of a computer scam on August 31, 2017. Fraudsters used social engineering during a telephone call to gain remote access to the advisor's desktop computer. This incident potentially compromised personally identifiable information, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health/medical information, policy/account information, and banking information for clients. The company notified law enforcement and offered 24 months of identity protection services through AllClear ID.
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-102340
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Oct 3, 2017
- Raw hash
- d516f6fee40fe3c0cd789d3b7fda77d7d8c19897492f52f9659aa34777c08a32
Reporting entity
- Name
- The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Companynorm: the northwestern mutual life insurance
- Domain
- northwesternmutual.com
Victim entity
- Name
- The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Companynorm: the northwestern mutual life insurance
- Domain
- northwesternmutual.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 31, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTPHIHEALTH_BASICFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unknown
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566 PhishingT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 5 weeks(33 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.