AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Group Benefit Services (GBS)

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 8, 2016

Filed

May 9, 2016

To disclose

13 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Group Benefit Services (GBS) →

Group Benefit Services, Inc. (GBS) notified Montana residents of a data security incident involving names and Social Security numbers. A software upgrade to ASM Research’s online benefits portal contained a programming error allowing users to view other employees' transaction history via a print function. GBS discovered the incident on Feb 8, 2016, took the feature offline, engaged Kroll for identity monitoring, and implemented safeguards.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 3 days

discovery → filing · 13 weeks / 91 days

Feb 5, 2016

Begins

Feb 8, 2016

Discovered

May 9, 2016

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Group Benefit Services (GBS)
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Name: Group Benefit Services (GBS)
norm: group benefit services gbs
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 8, 2016
Breach occurred: Feb 5, 2016 – Feb 8, 2016
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Took the transaction history feature off line
Began investigating how this occurred
Implementing additional safeguards
Reviewing our policies and procedures
Implementing additional tracking capabilities
Removing the pre-population of enrollment forms
Engaged Kroll to provide identity monitoring services
Changes made: Reviewing our policies and procedures
Implementing additional tracking capabilities
Removing the pre-population of enrollment forms
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 13 weeks(91 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Group-Benefit-Services.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 9, 2016
Raw hash: 8f26aa1ae7511a3911775acdf76e677aabe2a4d633090e7d54a36f4285319acc

Reporting entityGroup Benefit Services (GBS)

Victim entityGroup Benefit Services (GBS)

Incidentdiscovered Feb 8, 2016

Stated responseTook the transaction history feature off line

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov