HackingFinancial ServicesHealthcareFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumActive

Principal Life Insurance Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 14, 2010

To disclose

—

Affected

2state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

67%

Principal Life Insurance Company reported that an unauthorized person used valid employer credentials to access and view the personal information (including SSN, name, age, and employment status) of two New Hampshire residents in April 2010. The incident was discovered during an investigation into fraudulent online activity. Principal engaged the employer administrator to reset credentials, added an additional access code for authentication, and offered one year of free credit monitoring to the affected individuals.

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Incident timeline

Apr 1, 2010

Begins

May 14, 2010

Filed

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_8c8682df570e27dc2010-05-18 · +4dVerified

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

Name: Principal Life Insurance Company
norm: principal life insurance company
Domain: principal.com
Industry: Financial ServicesllmHealthcarellm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2010 – Apr 30, 2010
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 2state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Contacted the primary administrator for the employer group to re-establish valid and secure authorization credentials
Adding an additional Employer Access Code to the authentication process for employer administrators
Sent a letter to the residents
Offering them one year of free credit monitoring through Equifax Personal Solutions
Changes made: Adding an additional Employer Access Code to the authentication process for employer administrators
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 · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGMay 14 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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-20100514.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 14, 2010
Raw hash: 27030e76f93788e6c900d7eaef6c5b1c1b279522f62906bbe8a69cf6270e4333

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

Victim entityPrincipal Life Insurance Company

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseContacted the primary administrator for the employer group to re-establish valid and secure authorization credentials

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov