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AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisconfigurationEmployee Data InvolvedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Identity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumResolved

STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY

bd_b1a78ec286cc8567 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 18, 2013

Filed

Nov 4, 2013

To disclose

17 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY →7 incidents on file

Standard Insurance Company disclosed that a file containing employee names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers was inadvertently accessible on a vendor's system between October 7 and October 18, 2013. The company learned of the unauthorized access on October 18, 2013, when another policyholder contacted them. The file was removed immediately. Identity theft protection services were offered to affected employees.

Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days
discovery → filing · 17 days

Oct 7, 2013

Begins

Oct 18, 2013

Discovered

Nov 4, 2013

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

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

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.