Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesHealthcareFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsMulti-Stage ChainCustomer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumContained

Ameritas

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 9, 2019

Filed

Jul 12, 2019

To disclose

9 weeks

Affected

16state residents only

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Standard Insurance Company notified Montana AG that third-party administrator Ameritas experienced a phishing incident affecting employee email accounts containing customer PII (SSN, DOB, etc.). Incident discovered May 9, 2019. Affected individuals offered 1 year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 8 days

discovery → filing · 9 weeks / 64 days

May 1, 2019

Begins

May 9, 2019

Discovered

Jul 12, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_6eda87bc6b1a4b4a2019-07-16 · +4dVerified

Name: STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY
norm: standard insurance

Name: Ameritas
norm: ameritas
Industry: Financial ServicesllmHealthcarellm

Discovered: May 9, 2019
Breach occurred: May 1, 2019 – Jun 4, 2019
Undetected for: 8 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 16state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Contacted law enforcement and will continue to work with them during their investigation
Third party: via Ameritas
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Engaged a forensic firm to assist in understanding the technical aspects of the incident
Implemented security enhancements to strengthen their security defenses against future attempts
Ameritas associates involved 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: Deployed a mandatory enterprise-wide password reset
Disabled the unauthorized access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 9 weeks(64 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Montana State AGJul 12 · first · this page

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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/Breach-NotificationDetails-34.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 12, 2019
Raw hash: 7b17445f77e9ecf30f2ce8064b3de7b6c83f65a1f36e5d29809585dbc27548df

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySTANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY

Victim entityAmeritas

Incidentdiscovered May 9, 2019

Stated responseEngaged a forensic firm to assist in understanding the technical aspects of the incident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov