Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)MinorMediumContained

True Benefits

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 19, 2017

Filed

Aug 14, 2017

To disclose

12 weeks

Affected

40state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for True Benefits →

TRUEbenefits LLC notified Montana residents of a phishing incident on May 19, 2017, where an employee's email account was compromised. Unauthorized access may have exposed names and variable data of clients and minors. No evidence of data misuse was found. The company engaged forensic investigators, secured accounts, and offered credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 weeks / 87 days

May 19, 2017

Begins

May 19, 2017

Discovered

Aug 14, 2017

Filed

vs. sector median

+4 wks slower

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed40 affectedView incident

Name: True Benefits
norm: true benefits

Name: True Benefits
norm: true benefits
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: May 19, 2017
Breach occurred: May 19, 2017
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 12, 2017
Affected individuals: 40state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Minor
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Secured the employee’s email account
Began an investigation
Engaged a leading forensic firm
Offering a complimentary two-year membership of Experian’s® IdentityWorksSM Credit 3B
Changes made: Conducted additional training and education for our employees regarding phishing emails
Enhanced email security
Amended email retention policies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 weeks(87 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/True-Benefits.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 14, 2017
Raw hash: c4dd083a46128bc4726faea029b7398b0be5307c4860956185bcd74d741d1391

Reporting entityTrue Benefits

Victim entityTrue Benefits

Incidentdiscovered May 19, 2017

Stated responseSecured the employee’s email account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov