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Ethos Technologies Inc

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 8, 2022

Filed

Oct 4, 2023

To disclose

43 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Ethos Technologies Inc2 incidents on file

Ethos Technologies Inc. disclosed a cyberattack where unauthorized actors exploited its online life insurance application process to access Social Security numbers. The incident occurred between August 4, 2022, and December 9, 2022, but was not discovered until December 8, 2022. Actors used known personal information to trigger a third-party service that returned SSNs in page source code, which were then extracted. Ethos notified the FBI, engaged forensic investigators, and implemented technical code changes. Affected individuals were offered two years of credit monitoring and identity theft protection.

California clockDiscovered Dec 8, 2022Notified Aug 7, 2023242d CA 60-day late43 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 126 days
discovery → filing · 43 weeks / 300 days

Aug 4, 2022

Begins

Dec 8, 2022

Discovered

Oct 4, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+34 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filingsup to 288d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Dec 20 (WA), last Oct 4 (CA) — a 288-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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.