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HackingFinanceGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

bd_7751cafcaa5d85ed · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 22, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. →13 incidents on file

Principal Financial Group notified New Hampshire residents that on or about July 6, 2021, personal information (Name, DOB, SSN) was visible on an employee's computer screen in the background of a photo posted to Facebook. The post was deleted upon discovery. The company offered one year of Equifax credit monitoring and identity theft insurance.

Incident timeline

Jul 6, 2021

Begins

Jul 22, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGMay 26 · first
New Hampshire State AG+57d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 26 (NH), last Jul 22 (NH) — a 57-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.