Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedPIIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

Disability Insurance Specialists LLC

bd_ea86940851267fbf · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jul 9, 2019

Filed

Dec 2, 2019

To disclose

21 weeks

Affected

4state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Disability Insurance Specialists LLC →2 incidents on file

Disability Insurance Specialists, LLC notified Montana residents of a July 9, 2019 unauthorized access to an employee email account. The incident involved phishing leading to credential compromise and email collection. Personal information including names, addresses, and government IDs was present. Kroll was engaged for identity monitoring. No evidence of misuse was found.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 21 weeks / 146 days

Jul 9, 2019

Begins

Jul 9, 2019

Discovered

Dec 2, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+12 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed4 affectedView incident

Name: Disability Insurance Specialists LLC
norm: disability insurance specialists

Name: Disability Insurance Specialists LLC
norm: disability insurance specialists
Industry: Financial ServicesllmProfessional Servicesllm

Discovered: Jul 9, 2019
Breach occurred: Jul 9, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 9, 2019
Affected individuals: 4state-resident count only
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring services
Launched an internal investigation
Reviewed a sampling of email contents
Undertook a comprehensive review of the impacted email account
Confirmed and further strengthened the security of our systems, including our email accounts
Continues to review its security policies and procedures
Changes made: Continues to review its security policies and procedures as part of its ongoing commitment to information security
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 21 weeks(146 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-38.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 2, 2019
Raw hash: 899b3e166774de439d31b3eaa618de4b6e37a9bc6864d5522ba74fd81322b634

Reporting entityDisability Insurance Specialists LLC

Victim entityDisability Insurance Specialists LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jul 9, 2019

Stated responseSecured the services of Kroll to provide identity monitoring services

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov