Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsEmployee Data InvolvedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 9, 2019

Filed

Jul 8, 2019

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP. →7 incidents on file

Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. disclosed a data breach resulting from a phishing campaign that compromised employee email accounts between May 1 and June 4, 2019. The incident, discovered on May 9, 2019, exposed personal information including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and policyholder details. Ameritas disabled unauthorized access, reset passwords, engaged forensic investigators, and offered one year of identity monitoring via Kroll.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 8 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 60 days

May 1, 2019

Begins

May 9, 2019

Discovered

Jul 8, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

1 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_232628a43e3cf8822019-07-08Candidate
HHS OCRbd_4ebf9bf27fe79d862019-07-08Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_9185045f7bac67632019-07-11 · +3dVerified

Name: AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.
norm: ameritas life insurance

Name: AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.
norm: ameritas life insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 9, 2019
Breach occurred: May 1, 2019 – Jun 4, 2019
Undetected for: 8 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled the unauthorized access
Deployed a mandatory enterprise-wide password reset
Engaged a forensic firm to assist in understanding the technical aspects of the incident
Implemented security enhancements to strengthen our security defenses against future attempts
Associates involved have received additional training to help prevent future incidents like this from occurring
Contacted law enforcement and will continue to work with them during their investigation
Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring at no cost to you for one year
Changes made: Implemented security enhancements to strengthen our security defenses against future attempts
Associates involved have received additional training to help prevent future incidents like this from occurring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(60 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGJul 8 · first

HHS OCRJul 8 · first

California State AGJul 8 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+3d

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/sb24-148741
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 8, 2019
Raw hash: f66f824a08c6b7ce9fb328199c89ac473f303779964404ff7acedd91dab1f78a

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.

Victim entityAMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP.

Incidentdiscovered May 9, 2019

Stated responseDisabled the unauthorized access

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov