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Applied Plan Administrators

bd_b3b1a82358873d33 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 12, 2018

Filed

Mar 28, 2018

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Applied Plan Administrators

Applied Plan Administrators (APA), a division of The Retirement Advantage, Inc. (TRA), experienced a phishing attack resulting in unauthorized access to one employee email account from February 10-12, 2018. TRA detected suspicious activity on February 12, 2018, and secured the account. Forensic investigation confirmed unauthorized access but found no evidence that personally identifiable information (PII) was accessed or acquired. However, out of an abundance of caution, TRA notified potentially affected California residents whose data (names, addresses, SSNs, dates of birth, financial account numbers) was stored in the compromised account. TRA offered 12 months of free credit monitoring.

California clockDiscovered Feb 12, 2018Notified Mar 29, 201845d CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days
discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 44 days

Feb 10, 2018

Begins

Feb 12, 2018

Discovered

Mar 28, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

2 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.