HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PIIMediumContained

Voluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC.

bd_53478e24452ae24d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 7, 2020

Filed

Aug 17, 2020

To disclose

32 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Voluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC. →

Voluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC (subsidiary of Patriot Growth Insurance Services) notified the NH AG of unauthorized access to two employee email accounts via stolen credentials. Access occurred between Dec 23, 2019 and Jan 13, 2020. Data exposed included names, DOBs, SSNs, and medical/insurance info. One NH resident affected. Notifications sent May 2020.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 15 days

discovery → filing · 32 weeks / 223 days

Dec 23, 2019

Begins

Jan 7, 2020

Discovered

Aug 17, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+23 wks slower

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

California State AGbd_69b98a1f5778134b2020-08-12 · +5dCandidate

Name: Patriot Growth Insurance Services, LLC
norm: patriot growth insurance

Name: Voluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC.
norm: voluntary benefit specialists
Domain: vbsenroll.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 7, 2020
Breach occurred: Dec 23, 2019 – Jan 13, 2020
Undetected for: 15 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 26, 2020
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PII
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birthMedical information
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Resetting the affected email account passwords
Assessing the security of VBS' systems
Notifying potentially affected clients and individuals
Working with a third-party forensic investigator
Changes made: Implement additional safeguards and training to its employees
Review our existing policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 32 weeks(223 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGAug 12 · first

New Hampshire State AG+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing Aug 12 (CA), last Aug 17 (NH) — a 5-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/patriot-growth-insurance-20200817.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 17, 2020
Raw hash: d5d28304cdce0a187a0d4d419e1d78c27b373ea1a8b3ffcd73dd59501fd8d013

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPatriot Growth Insurance Services, LLC

Victim entityVoluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 7, 2020

Stated responseResetting the affected email account passwords

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov