DisclosureLens
HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountHighContained

LPL FINANCIAL LLC

bd_16b6cb0b51a24a25 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

High

Discovered

Nov 1, 2018

Filed

Nov 19, 2018

To disclose

18 days

Affected

2,526state residents only

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for LPL FINANCIAL LLC37 incidents on file

LPL Financial LLC notified the NH Attorney General of a data security incident at its third-party service provider, Capital Forensics, Inc. On November 1, 2018, an unauthorized person accessed a single CFI user's account on a third-party file-sharing system. Files containing LPL client information, including names, account numbers, and Social Security numbers, were potentially accessed. LPL secured the account, removed the data, and notified 2,526 New Hampshire residents. Credit monitoring was offered.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 days

Nov 1, 2018

Begins

Nov 1, 2018

Discovered

Nov 19, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Show 4 more filingsup to 65d gap

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Nov 16 (MA), last Jan 23 (NH) — a 68-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.