HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 17, 2022

Filed

Mar 23, 2023

To disclose

18 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for 1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION →

1st Franklin Financial Corporation reported a security incident occurring on November 17-18, 2022, where an unauthorized third party accessed and potentially exfiltrated data. Affected data includes names, SSNs, and bank account/routing numbers. The company blocked access, changed passwords, engaged forensic experts, and offered credit monitoring. No specific count of affected individuals was disclosed in the notice sample.

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California clockDiscovered Nov 17, 2022 → Notified Feb 14, 202389d ✗ CA 60-day late18 weeks discovery → filing

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 18 weeks / 126 days

Nov 17, 2022

Begins

Nov 17, 2022

Discovered

Mar 23, 2023

Filed

vs. sector median

+10 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Massachusetts State AGbd_6cc99e9fdb9359cb2023-03-09 · +14dVerified
Montana State AGbd_0f301abc01d259d12023-03-02 · +21dVerified by operator
Vermont State AGbd_78421a87f880eedc2023-03-02 · +21dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_7d2d18c82fcc9cb12023-03-02 · +21dVerified

Show 3 more filings ↓up to 72d gap

South Carolina State AGbd_c448f2a9cb8352f62023-02-22 · +29dVerified
Maine State AGbd_9eb0df3dc0ec2cb22023-01-18 · +64dCandidate
Indiana State AGbd_6c626572f091c0f52023-01-10 · +72dVerified

Name: 1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
norm: 1st franklin financial

Name: 1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION
norm: 1st franklin financial
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 17, 2022
Breach occurred: Nov 17, 2022 – Nov 18, 2022
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Feb 14, 2023
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External

During the incident: Immediately investigated and aggressively responded to this event
Passwords were changed
Unauthorized access was blocked
Outside technical experts were engaged to further investigate and evaluate the nature and scope of the incident
Conducted a review of the data to identify individuals whose personal information may have been involved
Offering 12 months of free credit monitoring and $1 million in identity theft insurance through Experian
Changes made: Continuing to take steps to enhance our security measures to help reduce the risk of something like this happening in the future
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 18 weeks(126 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day late · 89d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: Nov 17, 2022
→ Notified: Feb 14, 2023
89d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: Nov 17, 2022 → Notified: Feb 14, 2023	89d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day late

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 8 states

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Indiana State AGJan 10 · first

Maine State AG+8d

South Carolina State AG+43d

Montana State AG+51d

Vermont State AG+51d

New Hampshire State AG+51d

Massachusetts State AG+58d

California State AG+72d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jan 10 (IN), last Mar 23 (CA) — a 72-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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-564676
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 23, 2023
Raw hash: 342099e1ed091f7c5ba4001573b3ff720dc9b32aefbc0d9412150937b9f71529

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entity1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Victim entity1ST FRANKLIN FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Incidentdiscovered Nov 17, 2022

Stated responseImmediately investigated and aggressively responded to this event

ComplianceCA 60-day late

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov