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HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceCustomer Data InvolvedFinancial accountFinancial credentialsMediumContained

Index Fund Advisors, Inc.

bd_1e8a953c14fe0d98 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 30, 2021

Filed

Jan 6, 2022

To disclose

5 weeks

Affected · nationwide

10,9684 in this filing

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for Index Fund Advisors, Inc.

Index Fund Advisors, Inc., a financial services firm, reported a data breach affecting 4 Maine residents. The breach, which occurred on August 5, 2021, and was discovered on November 30, 2021, was the result of an external system hack. The compromised information included financial account or credit/debit card numbers along with their corresponding security codes, access codes, passwords, or PINs. The company notified affected individuals on January 6, 2021, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Experian.

Incident timeline

undetected · 117 days
discovery → filing · 5 weeks / 37 days

Aug 5, 2021

Begins

Nov 30, 2021

Discovered

Jan 6, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

3 wks faster

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filingsup to 20d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGDec 17 · first
California State AGDec 17 · first
Massachusetts State AGDec 17 · first
Indiana State AGDec 17 · first
Maine State AG+20d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 17 (ME), last Jan 12 (NH) — a 26-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.