HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

New Century Federal Credit Union

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Severity

Low

Discovered

Sep 30, 2023

Filed

Mar 4, 2024

To disclose

22 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for New Century Federal Credit Union →

Century Federal Credit Union notified consumers that an unauthorized party accessed an employee email account between August 30 and September 30, 2023. The accessed data included names and additional personal information. The credit union secured the account, investigated, and offered one year of Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring to affected individuals.

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Vermont clock✗ VT AG >45 bday22 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

undetected · 31 days

discovery → filing · 22 weeks / 156 days

Aug 30, 2023

Begins

Sep 30, 2023

Discovered

Nov 29, 2023

Scope determined

Mar 4, 2024

Filed

vs. sector median

+13 wks slower

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_2140d4483014da122024-03-08 · +4dCandidate
Maine State AGbd_a832be826179e19a2024-03-08 · +4dCandidate
Massachusetts State AGbd_fa24f641707e17612024-03-08 · +4dVerified

Name: New Century Federal Credit Union
norm: new century federal credit union

Name: New Century Federal Credit Union
norm: new century federal credit union
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Sep 30, 2023
Breach occurred: Aug 30, 2023 – Sep 30, 2023
Undetected for: 31 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: Nov 29, 2023
Notification sent: Mar 4, 2024
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the involved email account
Began an internal investigation
Offering a complimentary one-year membership of Experian IdentityWorks SM Credit 3B
Reviewing technical security measures
Changes made: Reviewing technical security measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 22 weeks(156 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: VT AG >45 bday
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Vermont State AGMar 4 · first · this page

Montana State AG+4d

Maine State AG+4d

Massachusetts State AG+4d

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/2024-03-04-century-federal-credit-union-data-breach-notice-consumers
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 4, 2024
Raw hash: 6797f02b880311253a8824d8fb280982cffaceea652b53fb4bac51fd207b3c15

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityNew Century Federal Credit Union

Victim entityNew Century Federal Credit Union

Incidentdiscovered Sep 30, 2023

Stated responseSecured the involved email account

ComplianceVT AG >45 bday

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceago.vermont.gov