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PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 21, 2017

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

95%
Full breach record for PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. →15 incidents on file

Principal Financial Group reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2017-03-21. 1 Massachusetts residents were affected. The report records the breach type as electronic.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Mar 21, 2017

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGFeb 27 · first
New Hampshire State AG+21d
Massachusetts State AG+22d · this page
Massachusetts State AG+28d

Pattern: first filing Feb 27 (NH), last Mar 27 (MA) — a 28-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.