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Unified Trust Company, N.A.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 13, 2018

Filed

Nov 13, 2018

To disclose

39 weeks

Affected

1,946state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Unified Trust Company, N.A. →

Unified Trust Company, N.A. notified South Carolina residents of a data breach involving unauthorized access to employee email accounts. The incident, discovered on February 13, 2018, resulted from phishing leading to credential compromise. Personal information of customers was accessed. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, implemented MFA, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due39 weeks 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 · 1 days

discovery → filing · 39 weeks / 273 days

Feb 12, 2018

Begins

Feb 13, 2018

Discovered

Nov 13, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+31 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_8c021dae427df9fd2018-11-13Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_42ed6c5382ac2c0c2018-11-07 · +6dVerified
California State AGbd_a071eca79b11746c2018-11-07 · +6dVerified
Washington State AGbd_b63082d9bea2b6592018-11-07 · +6dCandidate

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California State AGbd_97a5dddf0eeca1692018-11-28 · +15dVerified

Name: Unified Trust Company, N.A.
norm: unified trust company na

Name: Unified Trust Company, N.A.
norm: unified trust company na
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 13, 2018
Breach occurred: Feb 12, 2018 – Feb 13, 2018
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 28, 2018
Affected individuals: 1,946state-resident count only
Data types: PIICredentials
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Launched an internal investigation, with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators
Ensuring that passwords for the affected email accounts were changed
Implementing multi-factor authentication
Enhanced security procedures around client accounts
Providing additional training to users on how to identify phishing scams
Continue to monitor our systems
Providing... 12 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services with AllClear ID
Changes made: Implementing multi-factor authentication
Enhanced security procedures around client accounts
Providing additional training to users on how to identify phishing scams
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 39 weeks(273 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.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

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Massachusetts State AGNov 7 · first

California State AGNov 7 · first

Washington State AGNov 7 · first

New Hampshire State AG+6d

South Carolina State AG+6d · this page

California State AG+21d

Pattern: first filing Nov 7 (MA), last Nov 28 (CA) — a 21-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/2018/UnifiedTrustCompany.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 13, 2018
Raw hash: 0dad3b3cfbc79e5725ad4b6d63f9c36510037116d0c520a0f5dbf97e03941e29

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityUnified Trust Company, N.A.

Victim entityUnified Trust Company, N.A.

Incidentdiscovered Feb 13, 2018

Stated responseLaunched an internal investigation, with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov