HackingFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmploymentHighContained

Sequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 9, 2022

To disclose

—

Affected

1,053state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Sequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC →

Sequoia Benefits and Insurance Services LLC notified Montana residents of unauthorized read-only access to a cloud storage system containing personal information (SSNs, names, addresses, wage data) between Sept 22 and Oct 6, 2022. The company engaged Dell Secureworks for forensic review, found no malware or data misuse, and offered 3 years of Experian identity protection.

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Incident timeline

Sep 22, 2022

Begins

Dec 9, 2022

Filed

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

South Carolina State AGbd_4207195f2012a95a2022-12-09Candidate
New Hampshire State AGbd_02c892d69e474d222022-12-12 · +3dVerified
Washington State AGbd_f8a0548d231e616e2022-12-12 · +3dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_827a3139dd2c4b6a2022-12-14 · +5dVerified

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HHS OCRbd_c71aac4f24c128b52022-12-20 · +11dVerified

Name: Sequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC
norm: sequoia benefits and insurance

Name: Sequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC
norm: sequoia benefits and insurance
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Sep 22, 2022 – Oct 6, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 7, 2022
Affected individuals: 1,053state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Initiated a response plan
Retained outside counsel to assist in investigating this matter
Activated Dell Secureworks to conduct a thorough forensic review
Engaged a separate global consulting firm with cybersecurity expertise to serve as technical advisors to counsel
Offering three years of identity protection services through Experian to impacted individuals
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.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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South Carolina State AGDec 9 · first

Montana State AGDec 9 · first · this page

New Hampshire State AG+3d

Washington State AG+3d

Massachusetts State AG+5d

HHS OCR+11d

Pattern: first filing Dec 9 (SC), last Dec 20 (CA) — a 11-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/consumer-notification-letter-23.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 9, 2022
Raw hash: b75a79e396ec1c4b5b219ca93b7501fd02e0d0c80d7fee9b8d2e19466df3b9a4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC

Victim entitySequoia Benefits And Insurance Services, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseInitiated a response plan

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov