HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDPIIHighContained

CONTINENTAL GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY

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Severity

High

Discovered

May 31, 2023

Filed

Aug 24, 2023

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

1,433state residents only

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for CONTINENTAL GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY →

Pension Benefit Information, LLC (PBI) disclosed a third-party security event affecting Continental General Insurance Company. An unauthorized third party exploited a vulnerability in PBI's MOVEit Transfer software to access servers on May 29-30, 2023 and download data including names, SSNs, DOBs, and policy numbers. PBI patched systems, investigated, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due12 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 · 2 days

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 85 days

May 29, 2023

Begins

May 31, 2023

Discovered

Aug 24, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

This filing is one of 7 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Oregon State AGbd_52d7dbae9a98c6ee2023-08-24Verified
California State AGbd_68b8b3434bda38e62023-08-24Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_8bcac730a29277272023-08-24Verified
Maine State AGbd_a938df8e8b0e37c02023-08-24Verified

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Montana State AGbd_020ad4b72d6c73c82023-08-21 · +3dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_4c7938198364a30e2023-08-28 · +4dVerified

Name: Pension Benefit Information, LLC
norm: pension benefit information
Domain: mypensionbenefitinformation.com

Name: CONTINENTAL GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY
norm: continental general insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 31, 2023
Breach occurred: May 29, 2023 – May 30, 2023
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 1,433state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDPII
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Patch servers
Investigate
Assess the security of our systems
Notify potentially affected customers and individuals associated with those customers
Reviewing and enhancing our information security policies and procedures
Offering you access to 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Kroll
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing our information security policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(85 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 · 7 filings · 7 states

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Montana State AGAug 21 · first

Oregon State AG+3d

California State AG+3d

Massachusetts State AG+3d

Maine State AG+3d

South Carolina State AG+3d · this page

Indiana State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Aug 21 (MT), last Aug 28 (IN) — a 7-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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/ContinentalGeneralInsuranceCompany.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 24, 2023
Raw hash: 17305ea29fff0611931402368d1d6099d9c66e75b3a962116aea5f74304e8f07

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPension Benefit Information, LLC

Victim entityCONTINENTAL GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY

Incidentdiscovered May 31, 2023

Stated responsePatch servers

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov