MisuseFinancial ServicesFinancePrivilege AbuseData MishandlingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancialHealth (basic)MediumContained

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 21, 2016

Filed

Jun 7, 2016

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company →16 incidents on file

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company reported an incident involving employees of an independent contractor agent in Chino Hills, CA. The investigation determined misappropriation of customer funds and misuse of customer financial cards. Affected data may include name, contact info, SSN, driver's license, health insurance info, and financial account numbers. State Farm terminated access for the involved individuals and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 138 days

Jan 21, 2016

Discovered

Jun 7, 2016

Filed

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

Name: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
norm: state farm mutual automobile insurance
Domain: statefarm.com

Name: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
norm: state farm mutual automobile insurance
Domain: statefarm.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 21, 2016
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountFinancialHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Insider
Threat actor: InternalFinancial
Third party: via State Farm independent contractor agent
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Terminated the system access and authority of these individuals to act on its behalf
Engaged in remediation activities for individuals identified as involved in this incident
Offering a 12-month subscription to a credit monitoring and identity theft protection service called TransUnion Credit Monitoring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 20 weeks(138 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-62237
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 7, 2016
Raw hash: ab3f95fa81798ec13bb19811f72e4fb88fbcc0e7de834abb2f76c13dd220e89f

Reporting entityState Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Victim entityState Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Incidentdiscovered Jan 21, 2016

Stated responseTerminated the system access and authority of these individuals to act on its behalf

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov