HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsPhishingSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedData ExfiltratedPIICredentialsLowContained

Funding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)

bd_3d87d952d97bbbad · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Mar 3, 2018

Filed

Mar 30, 2018

To disclose

27 days

Affected

23state residents only

Linked

3 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for Funding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.) →2 incidents on file

Funding Circle USA, Inc. notified Montana AG of a breach involving a third-party data vendor. Unauthorized parties accessed vendor employee email accounts (Office 365) starting Nov 2017, exposing Funding Circle customer/applicant data. Funding Circle engaged forensic investigators and notified law enforcement.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 122 days

discovery → filing · 27 days

Nov 1, 2017

Begins

Mar 3, 2018

Discovered

Mar 30, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

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

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

California State AGbd_c6ddb79bfb3789892018-03-30Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_74ef0e4e3e2251412018-03-23 · +7dVerified

Name: Funding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)
norm: funding circle usa inc dun bradstreet
Domain: fundingcircle.com

Name: Funding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)
norm: funding circle usa inc dun bradstreet
Domain: fundingcircle.com
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Mar 3, 2018
Breach occurred: Nov 1, 2017 – Feb 20, 2018
Undetected for: 122 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: 23state-resident count only
Data types: PIICredentials
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified federal law enforcement
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Contacted the data vendor
Retained a leading cybersecurity forensics firm to conduct a full investigation
Notified federal law enforcement of the incident
Changes made: Enhanced account security
Installation of multi-factor authentication on internal email accounts
Implementation of a stricter password policy
Integration of enhanced threat monitoring procedures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
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 AGMar 23 · first

California State AG+7d

Montana State AG+7d · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 23 (NH), last Mar 30 (MT) — a 7-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://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/Funding-Circle-Dun-Bradstreet-Inc..pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 30, 2018
Raw hash: c28589f71dec7fe8b81a72b7cb3cb89eb39bc95569399f159b3719a1ac7e386e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (2) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityFunding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)

Victim entityFunding Circle USA, Inc. (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.)

Incidentdiscovered Mar 3, 2018

Stated responseContacted the data vendor

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov