HackingProfessional ServicesStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)LowContained

Chimienti & Associates

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 22, 2024

Filed

Oct 24, 2024

To disclose

31 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

7 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Chimienti & Associates →

Chimienti & Associates notified consumers that an unauthorized actor viewed and/or copied data from a single internal email account between March 22 and March 26, 2024. The company identified suspicious activity on March 22, 2024. Affected data includes names and other data elements. The company offered credit and identity monitoring services.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday31 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 31 weeks / 216 days

Mar 22, 2024

Begins

Mar 22, 2024

Discovered

Oct 24, 2024

Filed

This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_07f5c5bfda6cfb512024-10-24Verified
California State AGbd_0e8468a6dd3c05792024-10-24Candidate
Montana State AGbd_1bf794f45172834f2024-10-24Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_4160474d622758d52024-10-24Verified

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Oregon State AGbd_71b2a2fdb77233c72024-10-24Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_df5c45ebd2e7b1892024-10-24Verified

Name: Chimienti & Associates
norm: chimienti associates

Name: Chimienti & Associates
norm: chimienti associates

Discovered: Mar 22, 2024
Breach occurred: Mar 22, 2024 – Mar 26, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Oct 11, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Investigated and responded to the event
Assessed the security of our email tenant
Notified potentially affected individuals
Offering credit and identity monitoring through CyEx
Changes made: Regularly review and enhance our already robust policies and procedures related to data privacy
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 31 weeks(216 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 7 states

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Indiana State AGOct 24 · first

California State AGOct 24 · first

Montana State AGOct 24 · first

Massachusetts State AGOct 24 · first

Oregon State AGOct 24 · first

New Hampshire State AGOct 24 · first

Vermont State AGOct 24 · first · 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://ago.vermont.gov/document/2024-10-24-chimienti-associates-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Oct 24, 2024
Raw hash: 8b4f513127b516845cdc38c7c0b6d1966035809fc350304b05cacb1c9b28a402

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityChimienti & Associates

Victim entityChimienti & Associates

Incidentdiscovered Mar 22, 2024

Stated responseInvestigated and responded to the event

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov