HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)MediumContained

New Era Life Insurance Companies

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 18, 2024

Filed

Feb 12, 2025

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

7,048state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for New Era Life Insurance Companies →2 incidents on file

New Era Life Insurance Company notified South Carolina residents of a data security incident where unauthorized access occurred between Dec 9-18, 2024. The attacker copied files containing personal information. The company engaged forensic investigators, isolated systems, reported to law enforcement, and offered one year of Experian Identity Works to affected individuals.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due8 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 · 9 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 56 days

Dec 9, 2024

Begins

Dec 18, 2024

Discovered

Feb 12, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Vermont State AGbd_c270ec4d46de08dc2025-02-12Candidate
California State AGbd_61dfded1becbd0572025-02-11 · +1dCandidate
HHS OCRbd_77e93c68edde4fe22025-02-11 · +1dCandidate

Name: New Era Enterprises, Inc.
norm: new era

Name: New Era Life Insurance Companies
norm: new era life insurance companies
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 18, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 9, 2024 – Dec 18, 2024
Undetected for: 9 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 12, 2025
Affected individuals: 7,048state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: reported the incident to law enforcement
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Initiated our incident response protocols
Isolating certain systems
Beginning an investigation with assistance from a third-party cybersecurity firm
Reported the incident to law enforcement
Offering you a complimentary one-year membership to Experian Identity Works
Changes made: Implemented, and will continue to adopt, additional safeguards and technical security measures to further protect and monitor our systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(56 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC 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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California State AGFeb 11 · first

HHS OCRFeb 11 · first

Vermont State AG+1d

South Carolina 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.

Source URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/2025/NewEraEnterprisesInc.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 12, 2025
Raw hash: 947ad5551e7ad06e40c21a4ef4c5ce69e3ee9abbb78ca0978d0a823a0051d30e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNew Era Enterprises, Inc.

Victim entityNew Era Life Insurance Companies

Incidentdiscovered Dec 18, 2024

Stated responseInitiated our incident response protocols

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov