DisclosureLens
HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

KMS Financial Services, Inc. (KMS)

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 2, 2018

Filed

Dec 3, 2018

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for KMS Financial Services, Inc. (KMS) →2 incidents on file

KMS Financial Services, Inc. notified clients that an unauthorized person accessed an independent contractor's email account between Sept 29 and Nov 5, 2018. The incident was discovered on Nov 2, 2018. Personal information including names, SSNs, and financial data may have been exposed. KMS secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and provided 12 months of identity protection services.

Incident timeline

undetected · 34 days
discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Sep 29, 2018

Begins

Nov 2, 2018

Discovered

Dec 3, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView 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.