HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Bankers Life and Casualty Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 29, 2023

Filed

Jan 29, 2024

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

64%

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

Bankers Life and Casualty Company disclosed a breach involving a SIM swapping attack on a senior officer's cellular account. The threat actor bypassed multi-factor authentication to access company data, including customer names, SSNs, dates of birth, and policy numbers. The incident was discovered on November 29, 2023. The company engaged law enforcement and forensic investigators, contained the access, and offered identity protection services.

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California clockDiscovered Nov 29, 2023 → Notified Jan 26, 202458d ✓ CA 60-day OK9 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 61 days

Nov 28, 2023

Begins

Nov 29, 2023

Discovered

Jan 29, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

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

Oregon State AGbd_6ad88753f461a26f2024-01-29Verified
Montana State AGbd_489763d38fcd7db52024-01-30 · +1dVerified
Washington State AGbd_7279c81e38952fba2024-01-30 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_ceb4c165523f07612024-01-30 · +1dVerified

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New Hampshire State AGScattered Spiderbd_f5b10da171539b6b2024-01-30 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_98392d56b57baf6a2024-01-31 · +2dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_e963eb59f735e9372024-01-26 · +3dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_2eccaf3d50008a412024-02-12 · +14dVerified

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
Breach occurred: Nov 28, 2023
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 26, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcementBegan working with the Federal Bureau of InvestigationBegan working with the Offices of the United States Attorneys
Third party: via Wireless carrier retailer
Initial access: valid_credentials

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

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(61 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 58d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Nov 29, 2023
→ Notified: Jan 26, 2024
58d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Nov 29, 2023 → Notified: Jan 26, 2024	58d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 9 states

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Indiana State AGJan 26 · first

Oregon State AG+3d

California State AG+3d · this page

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

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-580119
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 29, 2024
Raw hash: c0cd43261684bc5419d4a7325b9f6e6ab7466d5216c48164708d383464cf7776

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 responseNotified law enforcement

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov