AccidentalFinancial ServicesFinanceMisdeliveryCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 10, 2015

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION →2 incidents on file

HSBC Finance Corporation notified California regulators of a data security incident where personal information for certain customer mortgage accounts was inadvertently made accessible via the Internet. Affected data included names, Social Security numbers, account numbers, and phone numbers. HSBC contained the exposure, notified law enforcement and credit bureaus, and offered complimentary identity theft protection services.

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Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Apr 10, 2015

Filed

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

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

New Hampshire State AGbd_9ca61cba109a81852015-04-10Verified
South Carolina State AGbd_d2938476ec4611582015-04-13 · +3dVerified

Name: HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION
norm: hsbc finance

Name: HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION
norm: hsbc finance
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Dec 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 15, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Regulator citations: Notified law enforcementNotified credit reporting agencies

During the incident: Conducting a thorough review of the potentially affected records
Implemented additional security measures
Ensured that the information is no longer accessible publicly
Notified law enforcement
Notified credit reporting agencies
Changes made: Implemented additional security measures designed to prevent a recurrence
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 3 filings · 3 states

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New Hampshire State AGApr 10 · first

California State AGApr 10 · first · this page

South Carolina State AG+3d

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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-49318
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 10, 2015
Raw hash: 71e9ef2890328d0eee5e26cbd7fdcddb751bd25dd903ad3caeb8e1d2862ca479

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityHSBC FINANCE CORPORATION

Victim entityHSBC FINANCE CORPORATION

IncidentMisconfiguration

Stated responseConducting a thorough review of the potentially affected records

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov