HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCapture Stored DataSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Tiaa-cref Life Insurance Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 9, 2023

Filed

Aug 2, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

904state residents only

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

70%

Full breach record for Tiaa-cref Life Insurance Company →5 incidents on file

Pension Benefit Information, LLC (PBI), a third-party vendor for TIAA-CREF Life Insurance Company, disclosed a cyberattack involving the MOVEit Transfer software vulnerability. The unauthorized third party accessed a PBI server on May 29-30, 2023, downloading data including names, SSNs, DOBs, addresses, and gender. PBI notified affected individuals and offered 24 months of identity monitoring. 904 Washington residents were affected.

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Washington clock⏱ WA AG >30d8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 11 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 54 days

May 29, 2023

Begins

Jun 9, 2023

Discovered

Aug 2, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

on median

This filing is one of 6 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Pension Benefit Information, LLC supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_a903f29f5cdcd31c2023-08-02Verified
Montana State AGbd_c409725c75cde49b2023-08-02Verified
Idaho State AGbd_159519eb728b514e2023-08-01 · +1dCandidate
California State AGbd_5876c4c2a15a0cb72023-08-01 · +1dVerified

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Indiana State AGbd_637bad0cdc32a2592023-07-28 · +5dVerified

Name: Pension Benefit Information, LLC
norm: pension benefit information

Name: Tiaa-cref Life Insurance Company
norm: tiaa cref life insurance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 9, 2023
Breach occurred: May 29, 2023 – May 30, 2023
Undetected for: 11 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 904state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 1-99dexposure 1-99d
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain CompromiseT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Third party: via Pension Benefit Information, LLC
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Promptly launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the MOVEit vulnerability’s impact on our systems
Conducted a manual review of our records to confirm the identities of individuals potentially affected
Patch servers
Investigate
Assess the security of our systems
Notify potentially affected customers and individuals
Reviewing and enhancing our information security policies and procedures
Offering you access to 24 months of complimentary identity monitoring services through Kroll
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing our information security policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(54 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

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Indiana State AGJul 28 · first

Idaho State AG+4d

California State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+5d

Montana State AG+5d

Washington State AG+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jul 28 (IN), last Aug 2 (WA) — a 5-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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA26058.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 2, 2023
Raw hash: a75edef4670ce42765a955045637e9bd8b7afd907714b8580bdc480777016ecf

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPension Benefit Information, LLC

Victim entityTiaa-cref Life Insurance Company

Incidentdiscovered Jun 9, 2023

Stated responsePromptly launched an investigation into the nature and scope of the MOVEit vulnerability’s impact on our systems

ComplianceWA AG >30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com