HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentialsMediumContained

Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

May 26, 2021

To disclose

—

Affected

1state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

67%

Full breach record for Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC →19 incidents on file

Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC notified Montana residents of a breach involving unauthorized access to customer accounts. The incident compromised personal information including names, SSNs, and financial account details. The company offered credit monitoring via Experian IdentityWorks and advised customers to secure their accounts.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

May 26, 2021

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

This filing is one of 3 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_3aaa38d5e54de0642021-05-25 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_0ed87220d4dcb0672021-05-21 · +5dCandidate

Name: Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC
norm: wells fargo clearing

Name: Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC
norm: wells fargo clearing
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 1, 2021
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountCredentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Enrolling affected individuals in Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring service
Changes made: Encouraging customers to monitor account statements
Placing password protection on accounts
Closing compromised accounts and transferring money to new accounts
Changing usernames, passwords, and security questions
Forwarding suspicious emails to [REDACTED-EMAIL]
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 2 states

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Massachusetts State AGMay 21 · first

Massachusetts State AG+4d

Montana State AG+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing May 21 (MA), last May 26 (MT) — 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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/wells-notif.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 26, 2021
Raw hash: 102fdbe18c07567b078a1b45947cd08accd8b0d79b42d6f24cd1e3971899036f

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityWells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC

Victim entityWells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC

IncidentUnauthorized Access

Stated responseEnrolling affected individuals in Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring service

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov