Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Paradigm Life Insurance, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 26, 2019

Filed

Apr 26, 2019

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Paradigm Life Insurance, LLC →

Paradigm Life Insurance notified Montana residents of a phishing incident compromising an employee email account. The breach exposed names and Social Security numbers, potentially including addresses and driver's license numbers. The company secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Mar 26, 2019

Discovered

Apr 26, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_cdefee413e9c8d4a2019-04-26Verified

Name: Paradigm Life Insurance, LLC
norm: paradigm life insurance

Name: Paradigm Life Insurance, LLC
norm: paradigm life insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 26, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 19, 2019
Affected individuals: 3state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the email account
Retained a leading forensic security firm to investigate
Conducted a thorough search of the entire account
Providing a one-year membership of Experian IdentityWorks Credit 3B
Changes made: Evaluating additional platforms for educating staff
Reviewing technical controls
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 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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Massachusetts State AGApr 26 · first

Montana State AGApr 26 · first · this page

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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/CON-Paradigm-Life-MT-AG-c.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 26, 2019
Raw hash: c7b90d4b452fd80c19dd471fb7988023baa0e0baf3882c828f9c612248b27d7a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityParadigm Life Insurance, LLC

Victim entityParadigm Life Insurance, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Mar 26, 2019

Stated responseSecured the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov