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Americas Leading Finance > Inicio

bd_19e26ceae14c1c8f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Sep 14, 2020

Filed

Sep 25, 2020

To disclose

11 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for Americas Leading Finance > Inicio

Americas Leading Finance, LLC (ALF) disclosed a security incident on September 25, 2020, affecting Delaware residents. On September 14, 2020, ALF discovered that employee email accounts were compromised via a phishing attack, potentially exposing personal information of customers to an unknown third party. ALF engaged forensic consultants and notified law enforcement. No evidence of data exfiltration or misuse was found at the time of notification. Affected individuals were offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 11 days

Sep 14, 2020

Discovered

Sep 25, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

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.