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Social EngineeringProfessional ServicesProfessional ServicesPhishingBECCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

J.M. Forbes & Co.

bd_2d8fdc40759510b0 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 17, 2025

Filed

Apr 7, 2026

To disclose

20 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for J.M. Forbes & Co.

J.M. Forbes & Co. detected suspicious activity on its email system on November 17, 2025, which was part of an attempted business email compromise via social engineering. An unauthorized external party accessed an employee email account. The compromised account may have contained personal information including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and account numbers. The company contained the incident, preventing fraudulent transactions, and is offering two years of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

Vermont clock VT AG >45 bday20 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 20 weeks / 141 days

Nov 17, 2025

Discovered

Apr 7, 2026

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 90d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGApr 7 · first
Vermont State AGApr 7 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Apr 7 (NH), last Jul 6 (NH) — a 90-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.