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The Union Labor Life Insurance Company

bd_ebf082c9ce5a32a9 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Apr 1, 2019

Filed

Jun 26, 2019

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for The Union Labor Life Insurance Company →14 incidents on file

The Union Labor Life Insurance Company reported that on April 1, 2019, an unauthorized external user accessed an employee's Outlook email account via a fraudulent link from a trusted business partner. The incident potentially exposed personal information of participants in medical stop loss or group life insurance policies, including names, addresses, and possibly Social Security numbers. The company disabled the account within 90 minutes, engaged forensic investigators, and offered 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 86 days

Apr 1, 2019

Begins

Apr 1, 2019

Discovered

Jun 26, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

+2 wks slower

This filing is one of 2 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_56a7da3736a9efbb2019-06-25 · +1dVerified

Name: The Union Labor Life Insurance Company
norm: the union labor life insurance
Domain: ullico.com

Name: The Union Labor Life Insurance Company
norm: the union labor life insurance
Domain: ullico.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Apr 1, 2019
Breach occurred: Apr 1, 2019
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)PHI
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Disabled the employee’s email account
Sequestered the employee’s computer from the company network
Purged all instances of the malicious email from its system
Implemented its Data Incident Response Plan
Engaged an external data forensics firm
Changes made: Added cautionary language to all external emails
Conducted additional employee education on the identification of suspicious email
Enhanced its web filtering to identify malicious websites
Arranged for TransUnion to provide optional credit monitoring and identity protection services for 24 months
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(86 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGJun 25 · first

California State AG+1d · this page

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-148434
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 26, 2019
Raw hash: ac828519a4a3ea3500fccd22ec11120769ee83f6a2e49d6320240b2eb2b499ab

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityThe Union Labor Life Insurance Company

Victim entityThe Union Labor Life Insurance Company

Incidentdiscovered Apr 1, 2019

Stated responseDisabled the employee’s email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov