AccidentalProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)MediumResolved

Veteran Benefits Guide

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Aug 6, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Veteran Benefits Guide →

Veteran Benefits Guide (VBG) notified affected individuals on August 6, 2025, regarding a data incident in May 2025 where a VA Rating Decision Letter was inadvertently emailed to another veteran. The disclosure contained names, addresses, SSNs, and disability info. VBG offered 12 months of Experian IdentityWorks protection. No evidence of fraud was found.

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Incident timeline

May 1, 2025

Begins

Aug 6, 2025

Filed

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

Name: Veteran Benefits Guide
norm: veteran benefits guide

Name: Veteran Benefits Guide
norm: veteran benefits guide
Industry: Professional Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: May 1, 2025 – May 31, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 6, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Health (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1535 Unauthorized Access to Cloud Storage
Threat actor: Internal

During the incident: Engaged in appropriate corrective action and retraining of the staffer who sent the RDL
Offered 12 months of premium fraud detection and identity theft protection through Experian’s IdentityWorks program
Changes made: Retraining of the staffer who sent the RDL
Assess and update practices to prevent unauthorized disclosures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

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://nebraska.gov/ago/data-breach/documents/e7b34453-7f70-40cc-bda3-aad9670e1dbc.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 6, 2025
Raw hash: 5548b9e17d97302e18efdef5b7518c87392ca8dd13384c3c6ab793f4eb6be0f9

Reporting entityVeteran Benefits Guide

Victim entityVeteran Benefits Guide

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseEngaged in appropriate corrective action and retraining of the staffer who sent the RDL

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancenebraska.gov