Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumActive

Nationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 3, 2022

Filed

Sep 8, 2022

To disclose

5 days

Affected

5state residents only

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Nationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc. →4 incidents on file

Nationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc. notified Montana residents of a data breach where personal information (SSN, DOB, name, address) was acquired by an unauthorized party via a third-party email compromise. The incident was discovered on September 3, 2022. The investigation remains ongoing. Affected individuals are offered two years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 5 days

Sep 3, 2022

Discovered

Sep 8, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

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

Name: Nationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc.
norm: nationwide retirement
Domain: nationwide.com

Name: Nationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc.
norm: nationwide retirement
Domain: nationwide.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 3, 2022
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 5state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified regulators
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified regulators, plan sponsors, and impacted individuals
Offering two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection through Equifax services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 5 days(5 days from discovery to filing)
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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-550.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 8, 2022
Raw hash: 4c8528255a5c4f83bf6b1995174d074e043108e16a53eb3789b5fe6adb1531b4

Reporting entityNationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc.

Victim entityNationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc.

Incidentdiscovered Sep 3, 2022

Stated responseNotified regulators, plan sponsors, and impacted individuals

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov