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HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

LPL FINANCIAL LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 1, 2018

Filed

Nov 17, 2018

To disclose

16 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

9 filings

Confidence

64%
Full breach record for LPL FINANCIAL LLC37 incidents on file

LPL Financial LLC notified clients of a data breach involving its service provider, Capital Forensics, Inc. On November 1, 2018, an unauthorized person accessed a Capital Forensics user account on a third-party file-sharing system. Files containing LPL client information, including names, account numbers, and Social Security Numbers, were potentially accessed. LPL coordinated with Capital Forensics to remove the data and implemented heightened monitoring. Affected individuals are offered two years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services.

California clockDiscovered Nov 1, 2018Notified Nov 17, 201816d CA 60-day OK16 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 days

Nov 1, 2018

Begins

Nov 1, 2018

Discovered

Nov 17, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

6 wks faster

This filing is one of 9 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (8) · sorted by filing gap

Show 4 more filingsup to 67d gap

Filing propagation · 9 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗

Pattern: first filing Nov 16 (MA), last Jan 23 (NH) — a 68-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.