MalwareFinancial ServicesFinanceRansomwareData ExfiltratedSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Multi-Stage ChainGovernment IDHealth (basic)Financial accountMediumActive

QBE North America

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 25, 2021

Filed

Jul 23, 2021

To disclose

28 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for QBE North America →5 incidents on file

QBE North America notified the NH AG of a ransomware attack on third-party administrator Gallagher Bassett. Unauthorized access to QBE client data occurred between June 3 and Sept 26, 2020. Impacted data includes SSNs, medical info, and health insurance info. QBE is notifying affected individuals and offering 24 months of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 387 days

discovery → filing · 28 days

Jun 3, 2020

Begins

Jun 25, 2021

Discovered

Jul 23, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Name: QBE North America
norm: qbe north america
Domain: us.qbe.com

Name: QBE North America
norm: qbe north america
Domain: us.qbe.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jun 25, 2021
Breach occurred: Jun 3, 2020 – Sep 26, 2020
Undetected for: 387 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDHealth (basic)Financial account
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified New Hampshire Department of Justice

During the incident: Continuing to investigate
Notifying impacted individuals
Offering twenty four (24) months of free credit monitoring services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 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://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/qbe-north-america-20210723.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 23, 2021
Raw hash: 540967c0eb944e409d618ca152f747b6f1201fc3da2a442aeab3d274f5c8c9ef

Reporting entityQBE North America

Victim entityQBE North America

Incidentdiscovered Jun 25, 2021

Stated responseContinuing to investigate

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov