Social EngineeringFinancial ServicesFinancePhishingStolen CredentialsTargetedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

SHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 29, 2023

Filed

Dec 28, 2023

To disclose

17 weeks

Affected

1scope not determined

Linked

2 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for SHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION →3 incidents on file

Sharonview Federal Credit Union notified South Carolina regulators of a security incident where an unauthorized third party accessed one employee's email account between August 28-29, 2023, likely via phishing, to commit financial fraud. The incident exposed members' names, SSNs, and financial account numbers. The fraud attempt was blocked, and the credit union provided 12 months of credit monitoring and identity protection services to affected members.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 1 days

discovery → filing · 17 weeks / 121 days

Aug 28, 2023

Begins

Aug 29, 2023

Discovered

Dec 28, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+9 wks slower

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

Vermont State AGbd_929a1755a2f2a2ae2023-12-04 · +24dCandidate

Name: SHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
norm: sharonview federal credit union

Name: SHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
norm: sharonview federal credit union
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Aug 29, 2023
Breach occurred: Aug 28, 2023 – Aug 29, 2023
Undetected for: 1 dayoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 4, 2023
Affected individuals: 1scope not determined
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Phishing
MITRE ATT&CK: T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Immediately removed access and blocked any further attempts to access this account
Made immediate enhancements to our systems, security, and practices
Referenced e-mail account has been secured
Providing you with access to Single Bureau Credit Monitoring/Single Bureau Credit Report/Single Bureau Credit Score/Cyber Monitoring services at no charge
Providing you with proactive assistance to help with any questions that you might have or in event that you become a victim of fraud
Changes made: Made immediate enhancements to our systems, security, and practices
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 17 weeks(121 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 2 filings · 2 states

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Vermont State AGDec 4 · first

South Carolina State AG+24d · this page

Pattern: first filing Dec 4 (VT), last Dec 28 (SC) — a 24-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.

Source URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Security%20Breach%20Notices/SharonviewFederalCreditUnion.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 28, 2023
Raw hash: 4298e6815abe9879fa276db45eb33884020c4ce81d4bba11adddafa7c02472c2

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (1) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entitySHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Victim entitySHARONVIEW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Incidentdiscovered Aug 29, 2023

Stated responseImmediately removed access and blocked any further attempts to access this account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov