MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareData ExfiltratedPIIIdentity (basic)MediumContained

Westcor Land Title Insurance Company

bd_df677dcaec99788d · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 12, 2020

Filed

Sep 1, 2020

To disclose

33 weeks

Affected

1,030state residents only

Linked

10 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Westcor Land Title Insurance Company →

Westcor Land Title Insurance Company notified individuals in August 2020 of a January 2020 malware incident. Unauthorized access to a database containing names and associated data occurred. Forensic investigators were engaged. The company is offering 12 months of credit monitoring. The exact number of affected individuals is not disclosed in this filing.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due33 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

discovery → filing · 33 weeks / 233 days

Jan 12, 2020

Discovered

Sep 1, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+25 wks slower

This filing is one of 10 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_aac1e2702e8139362020-08-31 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_15f49abf244daf152020-08-25 · +7dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_4363881c52bb1ff72020-08-25 · +7dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_4f981934d27f35b42020-08-25 · +7dVerified

Show 5 more filings ↓up to 244d gap

California State AGbd_662aaffa5e48ae892020-08-25 · +7dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_874c7d03627c96772020-08-25 · +7dVerified
Washington State AGbd_b291c9b473b00c3b2020-08-25 · +7dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_f960ab4024af9b332020-08-25 · +7dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_80306fb132a094bc2020-01-01 · +244dCandidate

Name: Westcor Land Title Insurance Company
norm: westcor land title insurance

Name: Westcor Land Title Insurance Company
norm: westcor land title insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 12, 2020
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 25, 2020
Affected individuals: 1,030state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1119 Automated Collection
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notifying regulatory authorities, as required by law

During the incident: Engaged third-party forensic investigators
Notified regulatory authorities
Offering twelve (12) months of complimentary access to credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services through Experian’s IdentityWorks
Changes made: Reviewed existing policies and procedures
Working to implement additional safeguards to further secure the information contained within our network
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 33 weeks(233 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 · 10 filings · 10 states

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Illinois State AGJan 1 · first

Montana State AG+237d

Massachusetts State AG+237d

Indiana State AG+237d

California State AG+237d

Oregon State AG+237d

Washington State AG+237d

Delaware State AG+237d

New Hampshire State AG+243d

South Carolina State AG+244d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 1 (IL), last Sep 1 (SC) — a 244-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/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2020/WestcorLandTitleInsurance.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 1, 2020
Raw hash: c6ac8b7352cc12f04812265fe3b31ba686b667aed620564e20b4d577327e796b

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (9) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWestcor Land Title Insurance Company

Victim entityWestcor Land Title Insurance Company

Incidentdiscovered Jan 12, 2020

Stated responseEngaged third-party forensic investigators

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov