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Forum Communications Company

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Mar 19, 2025

To disclose

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Affected

10state residents only

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

95%

Full breach record for Forum Communications Company →

Forum Communications Company reported a data breach to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. The breach was reported on 2025-03-19. 10 Massachusetts residents were affected.

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Massachusetts clock✓ MA credit monitoring due

⚠ no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Mar 19, 2025

Filed

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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 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_26a5439a66ce6fb72025-03-19Candidate
Nebraska State AGbd_7a26f7ad4164379e2025-03-19Verified
Maine State AGbd_a21d894aeff107eb2025-03-19Verified
Maryland State AGbd_acd217cd853fbc492025-03-19Verified

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Vermont State AGbd_af4ff1acbb0906842025-03-19Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_f07170d221fa97542025-03-19Verified
Indiana State AGbd_ace0038a536322612025-03-14 · +5dVerified

Name: Forum Communications Company
norm: forum communications

Name: Forum Communications Company
norm: forum communications
Industry: Telecom & Mediaregulator portal

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 10state-resident count only
Data types: Government ID
Data elements: Social Security number
Stated not affected: Medical informationFinancial account numberDriver's licence numberPayment card number
The filing states these were not involved. Categories absent from both lists were not addressed either way.
Attack vector: Unknown

Compliance flags: MA credit monitoring due
Discovery-date grounding: no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

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Indiana State AGMar 14 · first

New Hampshire State AG+5d

Massachusetts State AG+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 14 (IN), last Mar 19 (MA) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

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://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2025/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 19, 2025
Raw hash: b4ab2d61f5e79f9973509cec5db98cecfd31fff297bf16322122a06ebcf12ef5

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityForum Communications Company

Victim entityForum Communications Company

IncidentUnknown

ComplianceMA credit monitoring due

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.mass.gov