HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsDelayed DiscoveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Financial accountPIIMediumContained

Bankers Life and Casualty Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 7, 2018

Filed

Oct 31, 2018

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

4,328state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Bankers Life and Casualty Company →6 incidents on file

Bankers Life and Casualty Company notified policyholders and applicants that unauthorized third parties accessed employee credentials between May 30 and September 13, 2018. The attackers used stolen credentials to access company websites, potentially exposing names, addresses, DOB, insurance info, and partial SSNs. Discovery was August 7, 2018; notification was delayed due to federal law enforcement investigation. Free credit monitoring offered.

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Hawaii clock✓ HI CRA notice due12 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 · 69 days

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 85 days

May 30, 2018

Begins

Aug 7, 2018

Discovered

Oct 31, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

+3 wks slower

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

South Carolina State AGbd_c4a0323bbe084cd82018-10-26 · +5dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_3247f431edb349de2018-10-25 · +6dCandidate
California State AGbd_b53da2fe4eb5b1eb2018-10-25 · +6dVerified

Name: Bankers Life and Casualty Company
norm: bankers life and casualty

Name: Bankers Life and Casualty Company
norm: bankers life and casualty
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 7, 2018
Breach occurred: May 30, 2018 – Sep 13, 2018
Undetected for: 69 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 1, 2018
Affected individuals: 4,328state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Financial accountPII
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: notified federal law enforcementcooperate with federal law enforcement's work to investigate and apprehend the unauthorized third parties
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Began an investigation
Notified federal law enforcement
Hired an external forensics investigator
Took steps to further restrict and monitor access to our systems
Enhance additional security procedures, including through supplemental training for certain employees
Offering one year of free identity repair and credit monitoring services through ID Experts
Changes made: Restrict and monitor access to our systems
Enhance additional security procedures, including through supplemental training for certain employees
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(85 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: HI 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 · 4 filings · 4 states

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Oregon State AGOct 25 · first

California State AGOct 25 · first

South Carolina State AG+1d

Hawaii State AG+6d · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 25 (OR), last Oct 31 (HI) — a 6-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://web.archive.org/web/20211024101019id_/https://cca.hawaii.gov/ocp/files/2018/11/Bankers_Life_OCP_2018-0552.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 31, 2018
Raw hash: e84dd12501c76125422faf710623d42cb04dc79a90a940ec966fa8890d947f04

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBankers Life and Casualty Company

Victim entityBankers Life and Casualty Company

Incidentdiscovered Aug 7, 2018

Stated responseBegan an investigation

ComplianceHI CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceweb.archive.org