HackingProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

Sequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 9, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

2,930state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Sequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC →

Sequoia Benefits and Insurance Services LLC notified South Carolina residents of unauthorized read-only access to a cloud storage system containing personal information (names, SSNs, DOBs, etc.) between Sept 22 and Oct 6, 2022. No malware or data misuse was found. The company engaged Dell Secureworks for forensic review and offered 36 months of Experian identity protection services.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline

Sep 22, 2022

Begins

Dec 9, 2022

Filed

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_9aaf3f1a8fed5f8c2022-12-09Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_02c892d69e474d222022-12-12 · +3dVerified
Washington State AGbd_f8a0548d231e616e2022-12-12 · +3dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_827a3139dd2c4b6a2022-12-14 · +5dVerified

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HHS OCRbd_c71aac4f24c128b52022-12-20 · +11dVerified

Name: Sequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC
norm: sequoia benefits and insurance

Name: Sequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC
norm: sequoia benefits and insurance
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Sep 22, 2022 – Oct 6, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 7, 2022
Affected individuals: 2,930state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Initiated a response plan
Retaining outside counsel to assist in investigating this matter
Activating through counsel Dell Secureworks to conduct a thorough forensic review
Engaging through counsel a separate global consulting firm with cybersecurity expertise to serve as technical advisors to counsel to supplement the security review
Offering three years of identity protection services through Experian to impacted individuals
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Montana State AGDec 9 · first

South Carolina State AGDec 9 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+3d

Washington State AG+3d

Massachusetts State AG+5d

HHS OCR+11d

Pattern: first filing Dec 9 (MT), last Dec 20 (CA) — a 11-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/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2022/SequoiaBenefitsandInsuranceServicesLLC.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 9, 2022
Raw hash: d333c924696220cf74d22c85507e388966e4c0735bd3af317ca12e80c69a2e8a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC

Victim entitySequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseInitiated a response plan

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov