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HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumContained

CNO FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

bd_68819bc5d4700663 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 25, 2021

Filed

Jul 21, 2021

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

3state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for CNO FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.2 incidents on file

CNO Financial Group, Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General of a cybersecurity incident involving its vendor, Guidehouse. An unauthorized third party accessed an unencrypted file shared via the Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) between December 2020 and January 2021. The incident affected 3 New Hampshire residents, exposing names, dates of birth, policy numbers, Social Security numbers, and addresses. CNO stated no systems were compromised directly, but offered two years of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

Incident timeline

undetected · 175 days
discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

Dec 1, 2020

Begins

May 25, 2021

Discovered

Jul 21, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGJul 20 · first
New Hampshire State AG+1d · 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.