Social EngineeringPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services
bd_733d2f7e19d9c59a · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services →Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services (d/b/a BenefitMall) disclosed a phishing incident in California where employee email credentials were compromised between June 13, 2018, and October 11, 2018. The breach exposed customer PII, including SSNs, DOBs, and bank account numbers. The company engaged forensic investigators, reported to law enforcement, implemented MFA, and provided 24 months of identity protection.
California clockDiscovered Oct 11, 2018 → Notified Jan 4, 201985d ✗ CA 60-day late12 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.
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/sb24-143493
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jan 3, 2019
- Raw hash
- b3062a3da2f12bd058baa0d2290465230e360f41a3e6274387454e6cf67fd564
Reporting entity
- Name
- Centerstone Insurance and Financial Servicesnorm: centerstone insurance and financial
- Domain
- benefitmall.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Centerstone Insurance and Financial Servicesnorm: centerstone insurance and financial
- Domain
- benefitmall.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 11, 2018
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jan 4, 2019
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- reported the incident to law enforcement
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 12 weeks(84 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 85d
- 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.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Oct 11, 2018→ Notified: Jan 4, 201985d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.