AccidentalMisdeliveryEmployee Data InvolvedGovernment IDIdentity (basic)EmploymentMediumContained

Progress Foundation

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Feb 2, 2026

Filed

Feb 12, 2026

To disclose

10 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Progress Foundation →

Progress Foundation disclosed that employee W-2s, containing names and Social Security numbers, were inadvertently disclosed to an unauthorized actor on February 2, 2026. The organization confirmed system security, notified law enforcement and the IRS, and offered credit monitoring to affected individuals. No unauthorized system activity was detected.

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Vermont clock✓ VT AG ≤14 bday10 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 10 days

Feb 2, 2026

Begins

Feb 2, 2026

Discovered

Feb 12, 2026

Filed

This filing is one of 3 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_90511714958e15c92026-02-12Verified
California State AGbd_a5a16a5dfb9a51ca2026-02-12Candidate

Name: Progress Foundation
norm: progress foundation

Name: Progress Foundation
norm: progress foundation

Discovered: Feb 2, 2026
Breach occurred: Feb 2, 2026
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Government IDIdentity (basic)Employment
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unknown
Regulator citations: Notified federal law enforcement and the Internal Revenue Service

During the incident: Commenced an investigation to confirm the nature and scope of this incident
Confirmed the security of our systems
Reviewed the contents of relevant data for sensitive information
Notified potentially affected individuals
Notified federal law enforcement and the Internal Revenue Service
Offering complimentary access to credit monitoring services through Epiq
Changes made: Review our policies, procedures and processes related to the storage and access of personal information to reduce the likelihood of a similar future incident
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 10 days(10 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG ≤14 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 · 3 filings · 3 states

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Massachusetts State AGFeb 12 · first

California State AGFeb 12 · first

Vermont State AGFeb 12 · 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/2026-02-12-progress-foundation-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Feb 12, 2026
Raw hash: b685380d3d06db1378b62866c39240dc31f54b599bf4e870cd78f30da5015300

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityProgress Foundation

Victim entityProgress Foundation

Incidentdiscovered Feb 2, 2026

Stated responseCommenced an investigation to confirm the nature and scope of this incident

ComplianceVT AG ≤14 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov