HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedMediumContained

Pension Benefits, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Nov 30, 2023

To disclose

—

Affected

5,202state residents only

Confidence

69%

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Aetna Life Insurance Company filed a supplemental notice with South Carolina regarding a security incident involving third-party vendor Pension Benefits, LLC (dba PBI Research Services). The breach impacted a total of 5,202 South Carolina residents, an increase from the initial 4,916 reported. Notices were sent to affected individuals.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Nov 30, 2023

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed5,202 affectedView incident

Name: AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
norm: aetna life insurance

Name: Pension Benefits, LLC
norm: pension benefits
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5,202state-resident count only
Data types: —
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Regulator citations: Filed supplemental notice with South Carolina Dept of Consumer Affairs
Third party: via Pension Benefits, LLC

During the incident: Notices were sent out to those individuals
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/Aetna%20Life%20Insurance%20Company-Supplemental%20Notice.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Nov 30, 2023
Raw hash: fd605241fc50dab8808d045bebb4a4d360abe527ceec28af4b3996cedc6d71ca

Reporting entityAETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Victim entityPension Benefits, LLC

IncidentThird-Party / Supply Chain

Stated responseNotices were sent out to those individuals

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov