HackingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICPIIMediumContained
Voluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC.
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Full breach record for Voluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC. →Voluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC reported a data breach involving unauthorized access to employee email accounts via stolen credentials. The incident, discovered on January 7, 2020, exposed names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and medical/insurance information. The company engaged forensic investigators, reset credentials, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring to affected individuals.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-193034
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Aug 12, 2020
- Raw hash
- f57b6ac8fe1e353d05f20c1ff544b69ed04d0cfb17dd1b26d41b606c59316906
Reporting entity
- Name
- Patriot Growth Insurance Services, LLCnorm: patriot growth insurance
Victim entity
- Name
- Voluntary Benefit Specialists, LLC.norm: voluntary benefit specialists
- Domain
- vbsenroll.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Jan 7, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTHEALTH_BASICPII
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notifying state regulators, as required
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 31 weeks(218 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- — (clock not assessable for this source)
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.