Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Benefit Resources and Planning

bd_3d58b82489fc3161 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 29, 2020

Filed

May 19, 2021

To disclose

14 months

Affected

2,210state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Benefit Resources and Planning →

Benefit Resources and Planning (BRP) notified South Carolina residents of a data breach involving unauthorized access to a company email account from January 27, 2020, to March 29, 2020. The incident resulted from a phishing attack compromising credentials. Affected personal information likely included names, addresses, and other identifiers. BRP secured the account, investigated the breach, and offered two years of Experian IdentityWorks monitoring to affected individuals.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due14 months 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

undetected · 62 days

discovery → filing · 14 months / 416 days

Jan 27, 2020

Begins

Mar 29, 2020

Discovered

May 19, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+50 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed2,210 affectedView incident

Name: Benefit Resources and Planning
norm: benefit resources and planning
Domain: benefitresourcesandplanning.com

Name: Benefit Resources and Planning
norm: benefit resources and planning
Domain: benefitresourcesandplanning.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 29, 2020
Breach occurred: Jan 27, 2020 – Mar 29, 2020
Undetected for: 62 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 20, 2021
Affected individuals: 2,210state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Securing the compromised email account
Initiating an investigation into the unauthorized access
Reporting any suspected phishing e-mails
Continuing to screen e-mails carefully
Changes made: Offering a complimentary two-year membership of Experian’s IdentityWorks
Continually assessing cybersecurity policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 months(416 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.

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/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2021/BenefitsResourcePlanning.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 19, 2021
Raw hash: 747a8669a591f62b65c5c95c789253b3dab3b84da7d081c3e3fe89df96d57f97

Reporting entityBenefit Resources and Planning

Victim entityBenefit Resources and Planning

Incidentdiscovered Mar 29, 2020

Stated responseSecuring the compromised email account

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov