HackingCustomer Data InvolvedPIIIDENTITY_BASICLowContained
Index Fund Advisors, Inc.
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Full breach record for Index Fund Advisors, Inc. →Index Fund Advisors, Inc. detected possible unauthorized access to certain systems on August 5, 2021. An investigation determined an unauthorized actor potentially accessed files containing personal information. The company engaged a third-party forensic firm, secured systems, and is offering 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Experian to affected individuals.
California clockDiscovered Aug 5, 2021 → Notified Dec 17, 2021134d ✗ CA 60-day late19 weeks discovery → filing
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_1e8a953c14fe0d98Maine State AGfiled 2022-01-06(20d gap)Verified
- bd_40ab1b9a6ec27074Montana State AGfiled 2022-01-06(20d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-548675
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Dec 17, 2021
- Raw hash
- 32770e4447cf3d62035a5ddbc99df92b7108d9831104ffb2637a54e29c0037b1
Reporting entity
- Name
- Index Fund Advisors, Inc.norm: index fund advisors
- Domain
- ifa.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Index Fund Advisors, Inc.norm: index fund advisors
- Domain
- ifa.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Aug 5, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Dec 17, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- PIIIDENTITY_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- Threat actor
- External
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 19 weeks(134 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 134d
- 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: Aug 5, 2021→ Notified: Dec 17, 2021134d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.