HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)Government IDHighActive

Bankers Life and Casualty Company

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Severity

High

Discovered

Nov 29, 2023

Filed

Feb 12, 2024

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

1,134state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Bankers Life and Casualty Company →6 incidents on file

Bankers Life and Casualty Company notified South Carolina residents of a SIM swapping attack targeting a senior officer's cellular account on November 29, 2023. The attacker bypassed MFA to access company data, potentially exposing names, SSNs, DOBs, and policy numbers. The company disabled access, reset passwords, engaged the FBI and forensic investigators, and offered credit monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due11 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 75 days

Nov 29, 2023

Discovered

Feb 12, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_98392d56b57baf6a2024-01-31 · +12dVerified
Montana State AGbd_489763d38fcd7db52024-01-30 · +13dVerified
Washington State AGbd_7279c81e38952fba2024-01-30 · +13dVerified
Maine State AGbd_ceb4c165523f07612024-01-30 · +13dVerified

Show 4 more filings ↓up to 17d gap

New Hampshire State AGScattered Spiderbd_f5b10da171539b6b2024-01-30 · +13dVerified
California State AGbd_3db61e65232ceb3b2024-01-29 · +14dCandidate
Oregon State AGbd_6ad88753f461a26f2024-01-29 · +14dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_e963eb59f735e9372024-01-26 · +17dVerified

Name: Bankers Life and Casualty Company
norm: bankers life and casualty

Name: Bankers Life and Casualty Company
norm: bankers life and casualty
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 29, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 26, 2024
Affected individuals: 1,134state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcementWorking with the Federal Bureau of InvestigationWorking with the Offices of the United States Attorneys
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Promptly notified law enforcement
Began working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Promptly disabled the senior officer’s corporate access
Reset passwords for personnel
Blocked the threat actor’s potential access
Scanned our environment
Implemented additional security measures
Engaged federal law enforcement
Hired an external forensics investigator
Took steps to further restrict and monitor access to our systems
Enhanced security procedures
Enhanced our policyholder safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent the reoccurrence of this type of an event
Enhanced our policyholder safeguards to provide added protection to your personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 11 weeks(75 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 9 states

View merged incident ↗

Indiana State AGJan 26 · first

California State AG+3d

Oregon State AG+3d

Montana State AG+4d

Washington State AG+4d

Maine State AG+4d

New Hampshire State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+5d

South Carolina State AG+17d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 26 (IN), last Feb 12 (SC) — a 17-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/BankersLifeandCasualtyCompany.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 12, 2024
Raw hash: cb6840b8d0e4cce1bfb66ad7ea17608234e32b1f5aff54923401fe752f5872ec

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBankers Life and Casualty Company

Victim entityBankers Life and Casualty Company

Incidentdiscovered Nov 29, 2023

Stated responsePromptly notified law enforcement

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov