Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Bankers Life and Casualty Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 29, 2023

Filed

Jan 30, 2024

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

865state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Bankers Life and Casualty Company →6 incidents on file

Bankers Life and Casualty Company reported a cyberattack in Washington affecting 865 residents. A sophisticated threat actor conducted a SIM-swapping attack targeting a senior officer's cellular account on Nov 28-29, 2023, to bypass MFA and access company data. Personal info including names, SSNs, DOBs, and policy numbers may have been involved. Notices sent Jan 26, 2024.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d9 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 62 days

Nov 28, 2023

Begins

Nov 29, 2023

Discovered

Jan 30, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_489763d38fcd7db52024-01-30Verified
Maine State AGbd_ceb4c165523f07612024-01-30Verified
New Hampshire State AGScattered Spiderbd_f5b10da171539b6b2024-01-30Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_98392d56b57baf6a2024-01-31 · +1dVerified

Show 4 more filings ↓up to 13d gap

California State AGbd_3db61e65232ceb3b2024-01-29 · +1dCandidate
Oregon State AGbd_6ad88753f461a26f2024-01-29 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_e963eb59f735e9372024-01-26 · +4dVerified
South Carolina State AGbd_2eccaf3d50008a412024-02-12 · +13dVerified

Name: Bankers Life and Casualty Company
norm: bankers life and casualty

Name: Bankers Life and Casualty Company
norm: bankers life and casualty
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 29, 2023
Breach occurred: Nov 28, 2023 – Nov 29, 2023
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 26, 2024
Affected individuals: 865state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcement (FBI, Offices of the United States Attorneys)
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Promptly notified law enforcement
Began working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Promptly disabled the senior officer’s corporate access
Reset passwords for personnel
Blocked the threat actor’s potential access
Scanned our environment
Implemented additional security measures
Engaged federal law enforcement
Hired an external forensics investigator
Took steps to further restrict and monitor access to our systems
Enhanced security procedures
Enhanced our policyholder safeguards
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent the reoccurrence of this type of an event
Enhanced our policyholder safeguards to provide added protection to your personal information
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(62 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 9 states

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Indiana State AGJan 26 · first

California State AG+3d

Oregon State AG+3d

Montana State AG+4d

Maine State AG+4d

New Hampshire State AG+4d

Washington State AG+4d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+5d

South Carolina State AG+17d

Pattern: first filing Jan 26 (IN), last Feb 12 (SC) — a 17-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA27748.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 30, 2024
Raw hash: 02318f4670457af249168878591428cff91eab2b64e162dbc9bf2c66e616975f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBankers Life and Casualty Company

Victim entityBankers Life and Casualty Company

Incidentdiscovered Nov 29, 2023

Stated responsePromptly notified law enforcement

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com