HackingDelayed DiscoveryIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
NewsBank
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Full breach record for NewsBank →NewsBank, Inc. disclosed a security incident where an unknown actor accessed systems between June 20 and July 1, 2024, viewing or downloading names and Social Security numbers. NewsBank identified suspicious activity on July 1, 2024, engaged forensic specialists, and notified federal law enforcement. The company is offering 12 months of credit monitoring through TransUnion. Notification was sent on January 16, 2025.
Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday28 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident
A leak claim by rhysida about this victim predates this filing by 199 days.View originating leak claim
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_51a1db0ff81055aaIndiana State AGfiled 2025-01-16Verified
- bd_7093a62978734b6aNew Hampshire State AGfiled 2025-01-16Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://ago.vermont.gov/document/2025-01-16-newsbank-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jan 16, 2025
- Raw hash
- 901db028a68f9b92c26f353293f1875851c7e41c71ac0740127efdad6934aae1
Reporting entity
- Name
- NewsBanknorm: newsbank
- Domain
- newsbank.com
Victim entity
- Name
- NewsBanknorm: newsbank
- Domain
- newsbank.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Jul 1, 2024
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jan 16, 2025
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Promptly notified federal law enforcement of the event
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 28 weeks(199 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- VT AG >45 bdayLeak >180d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.