MalwareFinancial ServicesHealthcareFinanceRansomwareData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedDelayed DiscoveryIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

NATIONAL WESTERN LIFE GROUP, INC.

bd_c2f222543a6024a6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Aug 15, 2020

Filed

Aug 6, 2021

To disclose

51 weeks

Affected

1,042state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for NATIONAL WESTERN LIFE GROUP, INC. →2 incidents on file

National Western Life Group, Inc. filed a supplemental notice with the New Hampshire AG regarding a malware incident discovered on August 15, 2020. Unauthorized access occurred between August 7-10, 2020. The breach affected 1,042 New Hampshire residents, exposing names, SSNs, DOBs, and financial account numbers. NWL engaged third-party investigators, notified law enforcement, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 8 days

discovery → filing · 51 weeks / 356 days

Aug 7, 2020

Begins

Aug 15, 2020

Discovered

Aug 6, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+42 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Illinois State AGbd_1e430f3eaf9ab01e2021-01-01 · +217dCandidate
Illinois State AGbd_22579a2e1a201aff2021-01-01 · +217dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_99cdbf56a458fa972021-01-01 · +217dVerified

Name: NATIONAL WESTERN LIFE GROUP, INC.
norm: national western life

Name: NATIONAL WESTERN LIFE GROUP, INC.
norm: national western life
Industry: Financial ServicesllmHealthcarellm

Discovered: Aug 15, 2020
Breach occurred: Aug 7, 2020 – Aug 10, 2020
Undetected for: 8 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 25, 2021
Affected individuals: 1,042state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Consumer Protection Bureau, Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party investigators
Engaged a third-party firm to programmatically and manually review the files at issue
Internally reviewed their databases
Notified federal law enforcement
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing existing policies and procedures to reduce the likelihood of a similar future event
Offering impacted New Hampshire residents access to twelve (12) months of free credit monitoring and identity protection services through CyberScout
Providing impacted New Hampshire residents with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 51 weeks(356 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 2 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

New Hampshire State AG+217d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Aug 6 (NH) — a 217-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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/morgan-truck-body-20210806.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 6, 2021
Raw hash: efe45d1eed9d88c40ee992bc822a6710d0988693a48d575af63e2f758d0941a2

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNATIONAL WESTERN LIFE GROUP, INC.

Victim entityNATIONAL WESTERN LIFE GROUP, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Aug 15, 2020

Stated responseLaunched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party investigators

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov