AccidentalFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialHighResolved

PenServe Plan Services, Inc.

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Severity

High

Discovered

Mar 1, 2017

Filed

Apr 3, 2017

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected

2,271state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for PenServe Plan Services, Inc. →

PenServ Plan Services, Inc. inadvertently emailed a spreadsheet containing plan participants' personal information (name, SSN, DOB, compensation) to some recipients between Feb 26 and Mar 1, 2017. The error was discovered on Mar 1, 2017. PenServ contacted recipients to delete the email, worked with Security Finance to remove copies from servers, and offered 12 months of Experian identity protection. No systems were breached.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due5 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 · 3 days

discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 33 days

Feb 26, 2017

Begins

Mar 1, 2017

Discovered

Apr 3, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_474674902736cbd22017-04-03Verified
Montana State AGbd_b4cdb04fc2674b7f2017-03-31 · +3dCandidate

Name: PenServe Plan Services, Inc.
norm: penserve plan

Name: PenServe Plan Services, Inc.
norm: penserve plan
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2017
Breach occurred: Feb 26, 2017 – Mar 1, 2017
Undetected for: 3 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 31, 2017
Affected individuals: 2,271state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1534 Internal Remote Services
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Reached out to all recipients of this email and instructed them to permanently delete this email and all of its attachments
Worked with Security Finance to delete all versions of this email and its attachments from its email servers
Conducting a thorough review of the events surrounding this incident
Working with outside subject matter experts in this investigation
Offering twelve (12) months of free identity protection services through Experian
Changes made: Implementation of additional protocols for sending information electronically
Providing training to our staff
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 weeks(33 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: 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.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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Montana State AGMar 31 · first

Massachusetts State AG+3d

South Carolina State AG+3d · this page

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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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2017/PenServPlanServices.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 3, 2017
Raw hash: ce3949c79ded0e982153267fff5122679caf43f55c061b1a822a61573caf27f6

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPenServe Plan Services, Inc.

Victim entityPenServe Plan Services, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2017

Stated responseReached out to all recipients of this email and instructed them to permanently delete this email and all of its attachments

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov