AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumResolved

Advantage Capital Funding

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 6, 2020

Filed

Sep 8, 2020

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

6state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Advantage Capital Funding →

Advantage Capital Funding, LLC notified the NH Attorney General of a data security incident involving a misconfigured cloud storage bucket. Between February 6, 2020, and March 6, 2020, the bucket containing merchant loan application data was accessible over the internet. The data exposed included names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and financial account numbers. Six New Hampshire residents were affected. The company took the database offline, engaged a cybersecurity firm, and offered one year of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 215 days

Feb 6, 2020

Begins

Feb 6, 2020

Discovered

Sep 8, 2020

Filed

vs. sector median

+22 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_cb2cbd3c5563b51f2020-09-04 · +4dVerified
Montana State AGbd_e246acf224fc45342020-09-04 · +4dCandidate
California State AGbd_e5b1a4ec18c0d1922020-09-04 · +4dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_e8af3b75a680e38e2020-09-04 · +4dVerified

Name: Advantage Capital Funding
norm: advantage capital funding

Name: Advantage Capital Funding
norm: advantage capital funding
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Feb 6, 2020
Breach occurred: Feb 6, 2020 – Mar 6, 2020
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Sep 4, 2020
Affected individuals: 6state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
Regulator citations: Notified the New Hampshire Attorney General

During the incident: Took the database offline
Engaged a cyber security firm to assist with the investigation
Mailing notification letters via United States First-Class mail to the six New Hampshire residents
Offering one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection service through MyIDCare
Providing a call center for the individuals to call with questions regarding the incident
Changes made: Implemented a hosted database service policy, which enhances the service's security to help prevent public accessibility to the system
Implemented document tracking and tracing in the hosted database to identify accessibility
Encrypted the database to limit access to select IP addresses that are only accessible to those with granted access
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(215 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

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Massachusetts State AGSep 4 · first

Montana State AGSep 4 · first

California State AGSep 4 · first

Indiana State AGSep 4 · first

New Hampshire State AG+4d · this page

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.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/advantage-capital-funding-20200908.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Sep 8, 2020
Raw hash: f9e9e97ee2fd5729018d3b3491aaf8cf586d2e5678f07bb8b5062aadb6132598

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityAdvantage Capital Funding

Victim entityAdvantage Capital Funding

Incidentdiscovered Feb 6, 2020

Stated responseTook the database offline

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov