HackingFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinanceVulnerability ExploitData ExfiltratedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America

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Severity

High

Discovered

May 31, 2023

Filed

Jul 27, 2023

To disclose

8 weeks

Affected

23,122state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America →7 incidents on file

Pension Benefit Information, LLC (PBI) disclosed a third-party software event involving the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability exploited by an unauthorized third party. The incident occurred May 29-30, 2023, affecting data including names, SSNs, DOBs, addresses, and gender for individuals associated with TIAA. PBI patched servers, investigated, and offered 24 months of identity monitoring.

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South Carolina clock✓ SC CRA notice due8 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

discovery → filing · 8 weeks / 57 days

May 29, 2023

Begins

May 31, 2023

Discovered

Jul 27, 2023

Filed

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Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed23,122 affectedView incident

Name: Pension Benefit Information, LLC
norm: pension benefit information
Domain: mypensionbenefitinformation.com

Name: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
norm: teachers insurance and annuity association of america
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: May 31, 2023
Breach occurred: May 29, 2023 – May 30, 2023
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 23,122state-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: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Promptly took steps to patch servers
Investigate
Assess the security of our systems
Notify potentially affected customers and individuals associated with those customers
Reviewing and enhancing our information security policies and procedures
Offering you access to 24 months of complimentary identity monitoring services through Kroll
Changes made: Reviewing and enhancing our information security policies and procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 8 weeks(57 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: SC CRA notice due
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

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://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/TeachersInsuranceandAnnuityAssociationofAmerica.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 27, 2023
Raw hash: b9a85f3121cccfa6c62ca47c04f9e15615593d246b1dad0636081aa6d03d80ba

Reporting entityPension Benefit Information, LLC

Victim entityTeachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America

Incidentdiscovered May 31, 2023

Stated responsePromptly took steps to patch servers

ComplianceSC CRA notice due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov