HackingFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinanceVulnerability ExploitCapture Stored DataData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)TargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIICriticalContained

Pension Benefit Information, LLC

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

May 31, 2023

Filed

Jul 27, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

123,957state residents only

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Pension Benefit Information, LLC →18 incidents on file

Pension Benefit Information, LLC (PBI) notified South Carolina that an unauthorized third party exploited a vulnerability in Progress Software's MOVEit Transfer software on May 29-30, 2023. PBI confirmed that personal information including names, SSNs, and policy numbers of individuals associated with client Corebridge Financial, Inc. was downloaded. PBI patched servers, notified law enforcement, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring. Corebridge's systems were not directly breached.

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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 · 2 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

May 29, 2023

Begins

May 31, 2023

Discovered

Jul 27, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

2 wks faster

Part of Progress Software Corporation supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed123,957 affectedView incident

Name: Pension Benefit Information, LLC
norm: pension benefit information
Domain: mypensionbenefitinformation.com

Name: Pension Benefit Information, LLC
norm: pension benefit information
Domain: mypensionbenefitinformation.com
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: May 31, 2023
Breach occurred: May 29, 2023 – May 30, 2023
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jul 27, 2023
Affected individuals: 123,957state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: PBI has also notified law enforcement about this event
Third party: via Progress Software
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: PBI promptly launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the MOVEit vulnerability’s impact on our systems
Conducted a manual review of our records to confirm the identities of individuals potentially affected
PBI has also notified law enforcement about this event
Offering you access to 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Kroll
Changes made: Promptly took steps to patch servers
Reviewing and enhancing our information security policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(57 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.

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/CorebridgeFinancialInc.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 27, 2023
Raw hash: b96a24a09def6474007775411a052e830644635478d3103da0e1f29d03244f35

Reporting entityPension Benefit Information, LLC

Victim entityPension Benefit Information, LLC

Incidentdiscovered May 31, 2023

Stated responsePBI promptly launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the MOVEit vulnerability’s impact on our systems

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov