Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

Baja Bound Insurance Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 16, 2015

Filed

Feb 8, 2016

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Baja Bound Insurance Services →

Baja Bound Insurance Services, Inc. discovered on December 16, 2015, that an agent's email account may have been compromised via a phishing attack. The incident potentially exposed personal information including names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, and credit card numbers. Social Security numbers were not involved. The company offered one year of identity monitoring through Kroll and implemented two-factor authentication for email accounts as remediation.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 54 days

Dec 16, 2015

Begins

Dec 16, 2015

Discovered

Feb 8, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_73f84d54bce7dd972016-02-08Verified
Montana State AGbd_8c1aca7f62cfd2012016-02-08Candidate

Name: Baja Bound Insurance Services
norm: baja bound insurance
Domain: bajabound.com

Name: Baja Bound Insurance Services
norm: baja bound insurance
Domain: bajabound.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Dec 16, 2015
Breach occurred: Dec 16, 2015
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Reviewed documents stored in the email account
Providing one year of identity monitoring at no cost through Kroll
Changes made: Revising policy and procedures regarding the handling of personal information
Setting up two-factor authentication for email accounts
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(54 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 8 · first

Montana State AGFeb 8 · first

California State AGFeb 8 · first · 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-60000
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 8, 2016
Raw hash: 3d9d4b84886ffedf1e96b5a0fe2f800a3d3032ecb3b26d0cde33e0952c765471

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBaja Bound Insurance Services

Victim entityBaja Bound Insurance Services

Incidentdiscovered Dec 16, 2015

Stated responseReviewed documents stored in the email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov