Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedCredentialsPIILowContained

Protective Insurance Corporation

bd_38bfa2cbdd917617 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 17, 2018

Filed

Jan 30, 2019

To disclose

19 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Protective Insurance Corporation →

Protective Insurance Corporation notified affected individuals of a September 2018 incident where suspicious activity in employee email accounts led to unauthorized access. The company engaged forensic experts, implemented safeguards, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring. No misuse reported to date.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 19 weeks / 135 days

Sep 17, 2018

Discovered

Jan 30, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+11 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Protective Insurance Corporation
norm: protective insurance

Name: Protective Insurance Corporation
norm: protective insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 17, 2018
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 16, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: CredentialsPII
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notifying certain state regulators and consumer reporting agencies
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an investigation
Began working with forensic experts
Working diligently with outside forensic investigators
Implement additional safeguards
Offering complimentary access to 24 months of identity monitoring, fraud consultation and identity theft restoration services through TransUnion
Changes made: Implement additional safeguards to further secure the information in our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 19 weeks(135 days from discovery to filing)
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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Protective-Insurance-Corporation-Consumer.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 30, 2019
Raw hash: 6802dd1333d361c9e228fa1c77cf45ba471eb633d86b0a8aee447133584719a0

Reporting entityProtective Insurance Corporation

Victim entityProtective Insurance Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Sep 17, 2018

Stated responseLaunched an investigation

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov