AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 26, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. →13 incidents on file

Principal Financial Group notified New Hampshire residents that on May 11, 2021, personal information (name, SSN) was erroneously sent to an incorrect plan sponsor. The recipient deleted the file. Principal offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

May 11, 2021

Begins

May 26, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_7751cafcaa5d85ed2021-07-22 · +57dCandidate

Name: PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
norm: principal financial
Domain: principal.com

Name: PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
norm: principal financial
Domain: principal.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: May 11, 2021
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration

During the incident: Contacted the recipient and confirmed that they permanently deleted the file from their records and network
Extended an offer to pay for a one-year subscription to Equifax Complete Premier, a credit monitoring service
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings

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New Hampshire State AGMay 26 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+57d

Pattern: first filing May 26 (NH), last Jul 22 (NH) — a 57-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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/principal-financial-20210526.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 26, 2021
Raw hash: 621cfeb65a45d2efdd94240565f3c0e1af205e3a2d0972fea08a4b36dc8dc8ec

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

Victim entityPRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseContacted the recipient and confirmed that they permanently deleted the file from their records and network

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov