HackingProfessional ServicesHealthcareProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MinorMediumContained

Corporate Benefit Marketing, Inc.

bd_b93e90cb889a2827 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 11, 2020

Filed

Aug 19, 2020

To disclose

23 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Corporate Benefit Marketing, Inc. →

Corporate Benefit Marketing, Inc. (CBM) disclosed that an unknown actor used stolen credentials to access an employee's email account on March 10-11, 2020. CBM discovered the suspicious activity on March 11, 2020. The breach potentially exposed personal information, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and health insurance enrollment details, for individuals and minors. CBM engaged forensic investigators, reset passwords, and offered credit/identity monitoring services.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 23 weeks / 161 days

Mar 10, 2020

Begins

Mar 11, 2020

Discovered

Aug 19, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

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

Name: Corporate Benefit Marketing, Inc.
norm: corporate benefit marketing

Name: Corporate Benefit Marketing, Inc.
norm: corporate benefit marketing
Industry: Professional ServicesllmHealthcarellm

Discovered: Mar 11, 2020
Breach occurred: Mar 10, 2020 – Mar 11, 2020
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Minor
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying state and federal regulators, as required
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Immediately took steps to secure the employee’s email account
Launched an investigation which included working with a third-party forensic investigator
Reset the account password
Confirmed the security of our employee email accounts and related systems
Notified your employer regarding this incident
Notifying state and federal regulators, as required
Offering complimentary access to one year of credit and identity monitoring, fraud consultation and identity theft restoration services through TransUnion
Offering complimentary access to one year of Child Identity Monitoring through Equifax
Changes made: Review our existing policies and procedures
Implement additional safeguards
Provide additional training to our employees on data privacy and security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 23 weeks(161 days from discovery to filing)
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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-193251
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 19, 2020
Raw hash: e6ab6baddbe0169ef7c141633835ef8c6c866de3c897d7e3b4ffaf869bcad26f

Reporting entityCorporate Benefit Marketing, Inc.

Victim entityCorporate Benefit Marketing, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Mar 11, 2020

Stated responseImmediately took steps to secure the employee’s email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov