AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancialMediumResolved

Lincoln Retirement Services Company, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Mar 13, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Lincoln Retirement Services Company, LLC →9 incidents on file

Lincoln Retirement Services Company, LLC notified the NH Attorney General that a retirement plan participant's 1099-R tax form, containing name, address, and SSN, was inadvertently faxed to another participant on February 24, 2023, due to an employee processing error. One New Hampshire resident was affected. The company mailed a notification letter on March 9, 2023, offering one year of credit monitoring via Experian. Follow-up training was provided to the employee involved.

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Incident timeline

Feb 24, 2023

Begins

Mar 13, 2023

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Lincoln Retirement Services Company, LLC
norm: lincoln retirement
Domain: www.LincolnFinancial.com

Name: Lincoln Retirement Services Company, LLC
norm: lincoln retirement
Domain: www.LincolnFinancial.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Feb 24, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 9, 2023
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial
Attack vector: Unknown
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General

During the incident: Mailed notification letter to the affected resident
Offered a complimentary one-year membership in Experian’s credit monitoring service
Changes made: Follow-up training with the employee responsible for the error on proper information handling practices
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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/lincoln-financial-group-20230313.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 13, 2023
Raw hash: 0d01d91dc29671b4b4673384dfd94917b18a12e99fe8faa3e6c7d6cc9e2eb399

Reporting entityLincoln Retirement Services Company, LLC

Victim entityLincoln Retirement Services Company, LLC

IncidentUnknown

Stated responseMailed notification letter to the affected resident

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov