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CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 16, 2021

Filed

Mar 23, 2022

To disclose

14 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

6 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC.31 incidents on file

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. disclosed that between May 18, 2021, and December 16, 2021, certain chat and email messages sent through Schwab.com were inadvertently sent to external email systems. The incident was discovered on December 16, 2021. Affected data may include names, Social Security numbers, tax ID numbers, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, and usernames/passwords. Schwab stated there is no evidence of misuse or unauthorized access. The company remediated the issue and offered two years of credit monitoring and identity protection services.

Incident timeline

undetected · 212 days
discovery → filing · 14 weeks / 97 days

May 18, 2021

Begins

Dec 16, 2021

Discovered

Mar 23, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

+5 wks slower

This filing is one of 6 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap

Show 1 more filingup to 5d gap

Filing propagation · 6 filings · 6 states

View merged incident ↗
Maine State AGMar 23 · first
Indiana State AGMar 23 · first
Montana State AGMar 23 · first
California State AGMar 23 · first · this page

Pattern: first filing Mar 23 (ME), last Mar 28 (NH) — a 5-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.