HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)PIILowContained

Elephant Insurance Services, LLC

bd_514f11df42d9cb55 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Apr 1, 2022

Filed

Jan 13, 2023

To disclose

41 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

13 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Elephant Insurance Services, LLC →2 incidents on file

Elephant Insurance Services, LLC notified consumers of a data breach where unauthorized access to employee email accounts occurred between September 2021 and March 2022. The incident was discovered in April 2022. The breach compromised names and addresses. The company reported the incident to federal law enforcement, secured systems, and offered 12 months of identity monitoring services.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday41 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 · 212 days

discovery → filing · 41 weeks / 287 days

Sep 1, 2021

Begins

Apr 1, 2022

Discovered

Jan 13, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+33 wks slower

This filing is one of 13 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Delaware State AGbd_a2b9e4be35baa6902023-01-13Verified
California State AGbd_fbce5c31e0a90ec72023-01-13Verified
Oregon State AGbd_41d04d04e8e31ca12023-02-27 · +45dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_e5c67ea894af101a2022-05-31 · +227dVerified

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 233d gap

Washington State AGbd_02eea774d2f733492022-05-25 · +233dCandidate
Delaware State AGbd_5705d2f819bcc2f82022-05-25 · +233dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_6e385ed0b3beb6902022-05-25 · +233dVerified
Maine State AGbd_7d05c4c5c31b6d4e2022-05-25 · +233dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_91c7b89b725f8d0d2022-05-25 · +233dVerified
Montana State AGbd_9be6865e69c3fc042022-05-25 · +233dVerified

Showing first 10 of 12 linked disclosures.

Name: Elephant Insurance Services, LLC
norm: elephant insurance
Domain: elephant.com

Name: Elephant Insurance Services, LLC
norm: elephant insurance
Domain: elephant.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 1, 2022
Breach occurred: Sep 1, 2021 – Mar 1, 2022
Undetected for: 212 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 13, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)PII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Reported the incident to federal law enforcementNotifying appropriate state regulatory agencies
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Took measures to secure our systems and change relevant passwords
Investigated this incident
Reported the incident to federal law enforcement
Notifying appropriate state regulatory agencies
Offering you access to 12 months of identity monitoring services at no cost to you
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing our existing safeguards and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 41 weeks(287 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
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 · 11 filings · 10 states

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Washington State AGMay 25 · first

Delaware State AGMay 25 · first

South Carolina State AGMay 25 · first

Maine State AGMay 25 · first

Massachusetts State AGMay 25 · first

Montana State AGMay 25 · first

New Hampshire State AG+6d

Delaware State AG+233d

California State AG+233d

Vermont State AG+233d · this page

Oregon State AG+278d

Pattern: first filing May 25 (WA), last Feb 27 (OR) — a 278-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 12 — the full spread may be wider.

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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2023-01-13-elephant-insurance-services-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 13, 2023
Raw hash: 73730c05b53a36fb4e21c532b239aafc0151ca5006bc05a80165d900d751312d

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityElephant Insurance Services, LLC

Victim entityElephant Insurance Services, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Apr 1, 2022

Stated responseTook measures to secure our systems and change relevant passwords

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov