HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDLowContained

Watkins Insurance Group

bd_89c146d238ca949c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 10, 2026

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Watkins Insurance Group →

Watkins Insurance Group notified Massachusetts residents that an unauthorized third-party accessed employee email accounts between September 23, 2024, and January 3, 2025. The company secured the accounts and engaged a cybersecurity firm. A review completed on October 31, 2025, determined that names and other personal information were potentially impacted. The company is offering credit monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

Sep 23, 2024

Begins

Jan 10, 2026

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed9 affectedView incident

Name: Watkins Insurance Group
norm: watkins insurance
Domain: watkinsinsurancegroup.com

Name: Watkins Insurance Group
norm: watkins insurance
Domain: watkinsinsurancegroup.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Sep 23, 2024 – Jan 3, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Secured the email accounts
Engaged a third-party cybersecurity firm to assist in our investigation
Confirm the security of our email environment
Changes made: Enhancing our technical security measures and procedures
Providing access to complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services through Haystack
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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://www.mass.gov/doc/2026-37-lewis-watkins-farmer-agency-inc-dba-watkins-insurance-group/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 10, 2026
Raw hash: a23852250de4aea2ded4bcda2034521c73b9ef136ad115e66ef62f6102f1a998

Reporting entityWatkins Insurance Group

Victim entityWatkins Insurance Group

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseSecured the email accounts

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov