DisclosureLens
HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

The Global Atlantic Financial Group LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

Jun 7, 2023

Filed

Aug 21, 2023

To disclose

11 weeks

Affected

14,913state residents only

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for The Global Atlantic Financial Group LLC →7 incidents on file

Global Atlantic Financial Group LLC notified South Carolina residents of a third-party data breach involving vendor Pension Benefits Information LLC (PBI). Cybercriminals exploited a vulnerability in PBI's MOVEit file transfer application on May 29-30, 2023, exfiltrating policyholder data including names and government IDs. Global Atlantic's own systems were not compromised. Notification was sent July 28, 2023, offering two years of Experian IdentityWorks.

South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due11 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 9 days
discovery → filing · 11 weeks / 75 days

May 29, 2023

Begins

Jun 7, 2023

Discovered

Aug 21, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

Part of Pension Benefit Information, LLC supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed14,913 affectedView 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.