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AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

bd_e6a1a195ac37b26c · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 15, 2017

Filed

Mar 20, 2017

To disclose

5 days

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

68%
Full breach record for PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. →15 incidents on file

Principal Financial Group inadvertently disclosed employee PII (names, addresses, SSNs, account balances) to a former employee's personal email on March 15, 2017. Four New Hampshire residents were affected. The incident was detected by a Data Loss Prevention tool. The company requested deletion and offered one year of credit monitoring.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 days

Mar 15, 2017

Discovered

Mar 20, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
New Hampshire State AGFeb 27 · first
New Hampshire State AG+21d · this page
Massachusetts State AG+22d
Massachusetts State AG+28d

Pattern: first filing Feb 27 (NH), last Mar 27 (MA) — a 28-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.