HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)MediumContained

GEICO Corporation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2021

Filed

Apr 9, 2021

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

28state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for GEICO Corporation →3 incidents on file

GEICO notified Montana residents that fraudsters used externally acquired information to gain unauthorized access to driver's license numbers via GEICO's online sales system between Jan 24 and Mar 1, 2021. GEICO secured the site, implemented security enhancements, and offered one year of IdentityForce identity theft protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 36 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 39 days

Jan 24, 2021

Begins

Mar 1, 2021

Discovered

Apr 9, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed28 affectedView incident

Name: GEICO Corporation
norm: geico

Name: GEICO Corporation
norm: geico
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 1, 2021
Breach occurred: Jan 24, 2021 – Mar 1, 2021
Undetected for: 36 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Apr 9, 2021
Affected individuals: 28state-resident count only
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the affected website
Worked to identify the root cause of the incident
Implemented additional security enhancements
Offered one-year subscription to IdentityForce
Changes made: Implemented additional security enhancements to help prevent future fraud and illegal activities on our website
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(39 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Geico-notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 9, 2021
Raw hash: 944767431516d4dfc058e2ceca815dbd18d358dadaee449e5c8954df0ca0d26e

Reporting entityGEICO Corporation

Victim entityGEICO Corporation

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2021

Stated responseSecured the affected website

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov