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Newsweb LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Aug 5, 2026

To disclose

Affected

4state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for Newsweb LLC

Newsweb LLC issued a data privacy incident notice dated August 5, 2026, to Massachusetts residents. The incident involved unauthorized access to personal information, specifically names combined with Social Security numbers. Newsweb is offering 24 months of complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services via Haystack. The notice provides instructions for enrolling in monitoring, placing fraud alerts, and credit freezes with major bureaus. No specific attack vector or discovery date was detailed in the notification.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Aug 5, 2026

Filed

Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗
Illinois State AGAug 1 · first
Massachusetts State AG+4d · this page

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.