Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Financial accountMediumContained

RBN and Associates, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 15, 2024

Filed

Nov 15, 2024

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

2,326state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for RBN and Associates, Inc. →

RBN and Associates, Inc., an insurance broker, notified South Carolina residents of a data incident where an employee email account was accessed by an unauthorized user starting May 15, 2024. The breach likely exposed personal information of individuals enrolled in insurance plans. RBN secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and is offering 12 months of credit monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due26 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

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 184 days

May 15, 2024

Discovered

Nov 15, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+18 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_2520bfe160c5685d2024-11-15Verified
Indiana State AGbd_22ab5c7bf830e2972024-11-14 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_349bbd9f774de3b12024-11-14 · +1dCandidate
Maine State AGbd_4edf74bab80920ed2024-11-14 · +1dCandidate

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New Hampshire State AGbd_2c345bd6fb768c202024-11-18 · +3dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_1e73063106ba5ba22024-11-01 · +14dVerified by operator

Name: RBN and Associates, Inc.
norm: rbn and associates

Name: RBN and Associates, Inc.
norm: rbn and associates
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 15, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Nov 14, 2024
Affected individuals: 2,326state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the account
Engaged a specialized third-party cybersecurity firm to conduct a comprehensive investigation
Engaged a third-party data mining firm to conduct a review of the information
Providing you with access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score services at no charge
Providing you with proactive fraud assistance
Changes made: Conducts ongoing cybersecurity training for employees
Updated DMARC records
Verified use of multi-factor authentication across its systems
Updating its data retention and segmentation processes
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(184 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.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Illinois State AGNov 1 · first

Indiana State AG+13d

Montana State AG+13d

Maine State AG+13d

Massachusetts State AG+14d

South Carolina State AG+14d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+17d

Pattern: first filing Nov 1 (IL), last Nov 18 (NH) — a 17-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.

Source URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/RBNandAssociatesInc.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 15, 2024
Raw hash: ef9375a991625a1e8aaef0393f24230ab8d43cfac564047a257277ff81cefcf7

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityRBN and Associates, Inc.

Victim entityRBN and Associates, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered May 15, 2024

Stated responseSecured the account

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov