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HackingCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumResolved

EWIE Group of Companies

bd_2505dbb488d5e2a6 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Oct 12, 2020

Filed

Oct 19, 2020

To disclose

7 days

Affected · nationwide

5904 in this filing

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for EWIE Group of Companies →2 incidents on file

EWIE Group of Companies, a Michigan-based commercial entity, reported a data breach affecting 590 individuals, including 4 Maine residents. The breach, which occurred between September 17 and September 20, 2020, was discovered on October 12, 2020. The incident was described as an external system breach (hacking), where names and driver's license or non-driver identification card numbers were acquired. Affected individuals were notified on October 14, 2020, and offered 12 months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through CyberScout.

Maine clockDiscovered Oct 12, 2020 → Filed with AG Oct 19, 20207d ✓ ME AG ≤30d7 days 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.

Incident timeline

undetected · 25 days
discovery → filing · 7 days

Sep 17, 2020

Begins

Oct 12, 2020

Discovered

Oct 19, 2020

Filed

This filing is one of 2 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

View merged incident ↗
Indiana State AGOct 14 · first
Maine State AG+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing Oct 14 (IN), last Oct 19 (ME) — a 5-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.