Pacific Guardian Life Insurance Company, Limited
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Full breach record for Pacific Guardian Life Insurance Company, Limited →Pacific Guardian Life Insurance Co. Ltd. notified the California Attorney General of a data security incident involving unauthorized access to an employee's email account. The company became aware of suspicious activity on November 4, 2019. An investigation confirmed that an unauthorized individual accessed the account and may have viewed or downloaded emails containing personal information, including names, Social Security numbers, and in very few cases, medical information. 1,214 California residents were identified as potentially affected. The company secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered 12 months of credit and identity monitoring to affected individuals.
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_35e5284b8c3747a6Montana State AGfiled 2020-02-17Candidate
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-187404
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 17, 2020
- Raw hash
- 30d74e7ce3e65fc866755a830248dc75dab4a7a0b849ad475702eb66ec29f08a
Reporting entity
- Name
- Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, PLLCnorm: lewis brisbois bisgaard smith
Victim entity
- Name
- Pacific Guardian Life Insurance Company, Limitednorm: pacific guardian life insurance
Incident
- Discovered
- Nov 4, 2019
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 18, 2020
- Affected individuals
- 1,214
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTPHI
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Notified California Attorney General
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 15 weeks(105 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 106d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Nov 4, 2019→ Notified: Feb 18, 2020106d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.