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Principal Life Insurance Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Feb 23, 2021

To disclose

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for Principal Life Insurance Company17 incidents on file

Principal Life Insurance Company erroneously sent personal information (name, address, SSN) of defined benefit plan participants to another plan sponsor and its actuarial firm on February 5, 2021. The recipient confirmed deletion of the file. Principal offered credit monitoring and identity theft insurance as a precaution.

Incident timeline

Feb 5, 2021

Begins

Feb 23, 2021

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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California State AGFeb 23 · first · this page

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.