MisuseFinancial ServicesFinanceData MishandlingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

State Farm Insurance Companies Employee Retirement Trust

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 6, 2012

Filed

Apr 3, 2012

To disclose

28 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for State Farm Insurance Companies Employee Retirement Trust →7 incidents on file

State Farm Insurance Companies notified customers of an incident involving a former employee who allegedly misused customer information, including names, addresses, credit card numbers, and social security numbers. The investigation confirmed the incident on March 6, 2012, with specific unauthorized use noted in November 2010. State Farm offered 12 months of credit monitoring via TrueCredit.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 491 days

discovery → filing · 28 days

Nov 1, 2010

Begins

Mar 6, 2012

Discovered

Apr 3, 2012

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: State Farm Insurance Companies Employee Retirement Trust
norm: state farm insurance companies employee retirement

Name: State Farm Insurance Companies Employee Retirement Trust
norm: state farm insurance companies employee retirement
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 6, 2012
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2010 – Nov 30, 2010
Undetected for: 491 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Offering 12-month subscription to a credit monitoring and identity theft protection service called TrueCredit
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-22878
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 3, 2012
Raw hash: 9145feaf57ecd2f83368c656712977bf0152ed675ecc5472fda4b55e12b5c3fd

Reporting entityState Farm Insurance Companies Employee Retirement Trust

Victim entityState Farm Insurance Companies Employee Retirement Trust

Incidentdiscovered Mar 6, 2012

Stated responseOffering 12-month subscription to a credit monitoring and identity theft protection service called TrueCredit

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov