MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareData EncryptedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIMediumContained

Team Alvarez Insurance Services

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 25, 2021

Filed

Dec 6, 2021

To disclose

15 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Team Alvarez Insurance Services →

Team Alvarez Insurance Services suffered a ransomware attack on August 25, 2021, encrypting servers and potentially exposing customer PII including names, SSNs, Medicare IDs, and financial account details. The company engaged legal counsel and law enforcement, rebuilt servers, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring.

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California clockDiscovered Aug 25, 2021 → Notified Oct 1, 202137d ✓ CA 60-day OK15 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 15 weeks / 103 days

Aug 25, 2021

Begins

Aug 25, 2021

Discovered

Dec 6, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+7 wks slower

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

Name: Team Alvarez Insurance Services
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Name: Team Alvarez Insurance Services
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Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 25, 2021
Breach occurred: Aug 25, 2021
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 1, 2021
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHI
Data elements: Date of birth
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial

During the incident: Initiated a review of the incident
Engaged legal counsel
Contacted law enforcement
Engaged outside privacy counsel
Notified relevant insurance carriers about the incident
Arranged to have Equifax provide credit monitoring services for twelve (12) months at no cost to you
Changes made: Building new company servers
Reviewing access controls across the organization
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 15 weeks(103 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 37d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Aug 25, 2021
→ Notified: Oct 1, 2021
37d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Aug 25, 2021 → Notified: Oct 1, 2021	37d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-548236
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 6, 2021
Raw hash: 367f5f724bc3c3fbc322ff8eb8ecef218462f254f665329d44fdedc79aa5bdd2

Reporting entityTeam Alvarez Insurance Services

Victim entityTeam Alvarez Insurance Services

Incidentdiscovered Aug 25, 2021

Stated responseInitiated a review of the incident

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov