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

Linked

12 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America →6 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

vs. sector median

on median

This filing is one of 12 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Part of Progress Software Corporation supply-chain incident (2023) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Washington State AGbd_2ebc416a4ea0530d2023-07-27Verified
Hawaii State AGbd_69cfd607fb6c48072023-07-27Verified
Maine State AGbd_a760fbad056957c02023-07-24 · +3dVerified
California State AGbd_dc7396da17f400f62023-07-24 · +3dCandidate

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Idaho State AGbd_6311fa3dd226253d2023-07-21 · +6dVerified
California State AGbd_7b3aede4e27192152023-07-21 · +6dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_86ea77d6856815a12023-07-21 · +6dVerified
Montana State AGbd_c76c639d9bdb3a6d2023-07-21 · +6dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_73c09f3ceeff8d692023-07-14 · +13dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_53687e79813fbfd22023-08-17 · +21dVerified

Showing first 10 of 11 linked disclosures.

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.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 10 states

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Delaware State AGJul 14 · first

Idaho State AG+7d

California State AG+7d

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Montana State AG+7d

Maine State AG+10d

California State AG+10d

Washington State AG+13d

Hawaii State AG+13d

South Carolina State AG+13d · this page

New Hampshire State AG+34d

Pattern: first filing Jul 14 (DE), last Aug 17 (NH) — a 34-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 11 — the full spread may be wider.

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

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

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