HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsTargetedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

KMS Financial Services, Inc. (KMS)

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Nov 2, 2018

Filed

Dec 3, 2018

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for KMS Financial Services, Inc. (KMS) →2 incidents on file

KMS Financial Services, Inc. notified clients that an unauthorized person accessed an independent contractor's email account between September 29 and November 5, 2018. The company discovered the incident on November 2, 2018. Personal information potentially exposed included names, SSNs, and financial data. The company secured the account, engaged forensic investigators, and offered 12 months of identity protection.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 34 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Sep 29, 2018

Begins

Nov 2, 2018

Discovered

Dec 3, 2018

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: KMS Financial Services, Inc. (KMS)
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Name: KMS Financial Services, Inc. (KMS)
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Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Nov 2, 2018
Breach occurred: Sep 29, 2018 – Nov 5, 2018
Undetected for: 34 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Dec 3, 2018
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial account
Data elements: Social Security number
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Secured the account
Conducted an investigation
Engaged a leading cybersecurity firm to assist
Arranged to have AllClear ID protect your identity for 12 months at no cost
Changes made: Implemented additional technical measures to further enhance and strengthen our security processes
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

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/OCP/Breach-NotificationDetails-81.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Dec 3, 2018
Raw hash: d525a114bedf29230182277dd12313d40f715b3d34bfe0ec9df413b8aff1679e

Reporting entityKMS Financial Services, Inc. (KMS)

Victim entityKMS Financial Services, Inc. (KMS)

Incidentdiscovered Nov 2, 2018

Stated responseSecured the account

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov