HackingPIIIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
Advantage Gold
bd_169b81ebe56ee428 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1
Full breach record for Advantage Gold →Advantage Gold (Austin, TX) experienced an external breach in late Q3/early Q4 2025 when threat actors exploited a vulnerability in third-party firewall software. Unauthorized access exposed names, addresses, SSNs, and custodian account numbers for 7,960 individuals (36 Maine residents). Notification sent March 27, 2026; 24-month Experian IdentityWorks offered.
Maine clockDiscovered Sep 5, 2025 → Filed with AG Mar 29, 2026205d ✗ ME AG >90d29 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_3b1861f37409e091Vermont State AGfiled 2026-03-29Verified
- bd_cde4ae1eb8212278Texas State AGfiled 2026-03-30(1d gap)Verified
- bd_e831c4d2bbadd0faNew Hampshire State AGfiled 2026-03-30(1d gap)Verified
- bd_6e5ed94e189888b5California State AGfiled 2026-03-27(2d gap)Verified
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- bd_b4195eb2e9c942e9Indiana State AGfiled 2026-03-27(2d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/bf4ffd34-5d3e-4655-8703-c564a47bb932.html
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Mar 29, 2026
- Raw hash
- 59a70ee96d8d01c618fd5bf88c68f101f8974e74cd4e59d3671b2eb0914591c8
Reporting entity
- Name
- Advantage Goldnorm: advantage gold
- Domain
- advantagegold.com
- Industry
- Other Commercial
Victim entity
- Name
- Advantage Goldnorm: advantage gold
- Domain
- advantagegold.com
- Industry
- Other Commercial
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 5, 2025
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Mar 27, 2026
- Affected individuals
- 36
- Data types
- PIIIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 29 weeks(205 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- ME AG >90d · 205dME resident >180d · 203d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status Maine Discovered: Sep 5, 2025→ Filed with AG: Mar 29, 2026205d 90 days ME AG >90d Maine Discovered: Sep 5, 2025→ Notified: Mar 27, 2026203d 180 days ME resident >180d
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.