AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIMediumResolved

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jun 9, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. →15 incidents on file

Principal Financial Group notified Montana residents that on May 12, 2023, an employee inadvertently attached a customer's 2022 1099-INT form to an email sent to another client. The disclosure included name, address, truncated SSN, and account number. Principal offered one year of credit monitoring via Equifax.

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Incident timeline

May 12, 2023

Begins

Jun 9, 2023

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
norm: principal financial
Domain: principal.com

Name: PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
norm: principal financial
Domain: principal.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: May 12, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 9, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Unauthorized Access to Cloud Storage Object

During the incident: Offered one-year subscription to Equifax Credit Watch
Provided identity theft insurance
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/Consumer-notification-letter-349.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 9, 2023
Raw hash: 3ccf78a62e429a3ae3703da355cf70d72f39c4c6faac2226894ad312dba83818

Reporting entityPRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

Victim entityPRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseOffered one-year subscription to Equifax Credit Watch

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov